Description:Chapters: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando, Maria de Lourdes Pereira Dos Santos Van-Dunem. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bonga Kwenda (born Jose Adelino Barcelo de Carvalho), better known as Bonga, is a pop singer and songwriter from Angola. Bonga was born in 1943 in the province of Bengo, and left Angola at age 23 to become an athlete, becoming the Portuguese record holder for the 400 metres (Angola was at the time one of Portugal's five African colonies). He had already begun his singing career at age 15. Bonga abandoned athletics in 1972, concentrating solely on his music, and immediately became famous in his native country, as well as in Portugal, where he became a hit both with immigrants from the ex-colonies, and Portuguese of both African and European descent. He has released over 30 albums, singing in Portuguese and traditional Angolan languages. His tracks are a mixture of Portuguese folk sounds, semba, kizomba and latin elements. While Angola was still a Portuguese colony, Bonga was an outspoken supporter of independence. This led him to be exiled from Angola in the early 1970s. It was during this time that he launched his first album, Angola 72. At this time, Portugal was ruled by the repressive, right-wing Salazar government. Bonga's status as a star athlete allowed him the rare freedom of movement, which he used to carry messages between exiled freedom fighters and compatriots still in Angola. As the movement for independence heated up, Bonga was forced into exile in Rotterdam, where, in 1972, he recorded his first record Angola 72 and adopted the name Bonga Kwenda. A warrant for Bonga's arrest was issued in Angola for the seditious lyrics of the albu...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2334505We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Angolan Musicians: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando. To get started finding Angolan Musicians: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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42
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2010
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Angolan Musicians: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando
Description: Chapters: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando, Maria de Lourdes Pereira Dos Santos Van-Dunem. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bonga Kwenda (born Jose Adelino Barcelo de Carvalho), better known as Bonga, is a pop singer and songwriter from Angola. Bonga was born in 1943 in the province of Bengo, and left Angola at age 23 to become an athlete, becoming the Portuguese record holder for the 400 metres (Angola was at the time one of Portugal's five African colonies). He had already begun his singing career at age 15. Bonga abandoned athletics in 1972, concentrating solely on his music, and immediately became famous in his native country, as well as in Portugal, where he became a hit both with immigrants from the ex-colonies, and Portuguese of both African and European descent. He has released over 30 albums, singing in Portuguese and traditional Angolan languages. His tracks are a mixture of Portuguese folk sounds, semba, kizomba and latin elements. While Angola was still a Portuguese colony, Bonga was an outspoken supporter of independence. This led him to be exiled from Angola in the early 1970s. It was during this time that he launched his first album, Angola 72. At this time, Portugal was ruled by the repressive, right-wing Salazar government. Bonga's status as a star athlete allowed him the rare freedom of movement, which he used to carry messages between exiled freedom fighters and compatriots still in Angola. As the movement for independence heated up, Bonga was forced into exile in Rotterdam, where, in 1972, he recorded his first record Angola 72 and adopted the name Bonga Kwenda. A warrant for Bonga's arrest was issued in Angola for the seditious lyrics of the albu...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2334505We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Angolan Musicians: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando. To get started finding Angolan Musicians: Bonga, Neide Van-Dunem, Dog Murras, Waldemar Bastos, Don Kikas, Ompuff, Ngola Ritmos, Paulo Flores, Teta Lando, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.