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Global Beats: Angola

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Irina Vasconcelos

17/03/2018 GMT

Angola

BBC World Service - Global Beats, Angola

Music from Angolan artists including C4 Pedro, Titica, Eva RapDiva and Toty Sa'med

Daniel Nascimento speaks to and hears music from Angolan artists C4 Pedro, Irina Vasconcelos, Titica, Eva RapDiva, Ikonoklasta, MCKappa and Toty Sa'med.

Angolans love to dance, whether it is the super smooth sexy moves of Kizomba pair dancing, or the fast, rhythmic street moves of Kuduro. Global Beats talks to one of the kings of Kizomba, C4 Pedro, and hears an exclusive acoustic rendition of one of his latest hits, and to Titica, one of Angola's most popular Kuduro stars.
 
Titica's name hit the headlines across the world in 2011 when she was named best Kuduro artist of the year. This was despite the fact that she is transsexual, and Angola is a Catholic country in which homosexuality is illegal. 

Irina Vasconcelos is Angola's first and possibly only female rock singer. Her voice is sublime.
 
Then there's hiphop - Eva RapDiva is the country's biggest female rapper and reverses the traditional order of things, rapping whilst male artists sing the melodies in her songs.

MCKappa shot to fame for the wrong reasons - a young man was killed by security forces for repeating the lyrics of one of his songs. MCKappa and his fellow rapper and collaborator, Ikonoklasta, have become human rights activists and campaigners.
 
Toty Sa'med's music is inspired by the Semba songs of the '70s, and he reveals why he has started composing songs in Kimbundu, a language which fewer and fewer people speak in Angola.
 
The programme is presented by Daniel Nascimento who is the host of one of Angola's most popular TV music shows.

(Photo: Irina Vasconcelos. Credit: BBC)

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