A Portuguese singer of Cape Verdean descent, Dino d’Santiago pulls in styles from across the Portuguese-speaking world: Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea, São Tomé and also Brazil.
Exploring traditional Cape Verdean rhythms such as funaná – based on the rhythm of workers cutting sugar cane in Cape Verde – and batuku – played by women when they went to the rivers to wash clothes, d’Santiago mixes them for modern dancefloors with hand-played instruments and electronics, and lyrics in both Creole and Portuguese, connecting different Portuguese-speaking communities from Lisbon with the wider world.
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