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The native folk music of Mozambique has been highly influenced by Portuguese colonisation and local language forms. The most popular style of modern dance music is marrabenta . Mozambican music also influenced another Lusophone music in Brazil , like maxixe (its name derived from Maxixe in Mozambique), and mozambique style in Cuba and New York ...
Mozambique was the first new genre of post-revolution Cuba, and the first popular band music to systemically use rumba clave. [5] The mozambique began a new trajectory in band rhythms, which can be heard in its descendants— songo and timba .
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The Marrabenta style is a blend of traditional Mozambican rhythms and Portuguese folk music [3] with influences from Western popular music that were brought over by radio. [1] Early Marrabenta artists, such as Fany Pfumo , Dilon Djindji, and Wazimbo , were crucial in establishing the genre, [ 1 ] which has evolved over time into its modern form ...
The Island of Mozambique is a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay on the Nacala coast of northern Mozambique, first explored by Europeans in the late 15th century. From about 1500, Portuguese trading posts and forts displaced the Arabic commercial and military hegemony, becoming regular ports of call on the new European sea route to ...
In 1974, he returned to Mozambique and was actively in the African Music Association. After Independence, Wazimbo worked with the big band of the national radio station, Radio Mocambique (RM). He became the lead vocalist of Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Moçambique in 1979 and worked with various members from RM's big band.
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The lyrics celebrate Mozambique's independence, socialism and Mozambique's main political party, FRELIMO, which brought the country to its independence in 1975. In 1994, multi-party elections were held in Mozambique, and consequently the lyrics to the anthem were often omitted from most public performances and radio broadcasts, as they were ...