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PAM Meets Ary Kueka: the island melodies of Santo Antão
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PAM Meets Ary Kueka: the island melodies of Santo Antão

With Cape Verde’s 2023 Atlantic Music Expo in full swing, PAM takes you back to meet a thoughtful and endearing man, a poet and musician, who took us on a journey to his island, Santo Antão.

Carnival around the world
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Carnival around the world

Celebrate with the fervor and fever of Carnival goers around the world by looking into how cities and countries around the world sing, dance and dress to the local and universal aspects of the seasonal festivities in Cape Verde, Brazil and Trinidad. 

Scúru Fitchádu and funaná’s forbidden full circle
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Scúru Fitchádu and funaná’s forbidden full circle

Inside a chic hotel on the island of Santiago, in Cape Verde’s capital, Praia, with Sette Sujidade, aliás Marcus Veiga. Marcus is the singer and leader of Scúru Fitchádu (Créole for deep black) and wears his headbanging heart on his sleeve.

Mário Marta, a living love letter to Cape Verde
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Mário Marta, a living love letter to Cape Verde

PAM met Mário Marta for the 2022 Atlantic Music Expo in Praia, Cape Verde where the singer performed his contagiously positive new album Ser de Luz and wowed us with his jubilant personality. Mário Marta […]

Djam Neguin imagines the Cape Verdean future on ‘Ka Bu Squeci Tradison’
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Djam Neguin imagines the Cape Verdean future on ‘Ka Bu Squeci Tradison’

Cape Verdean multidisciplinary artist Djam Neguin exposes his vision of Afrofuturism through the prism of his archipelago while remaining faithful to tradition on his latest single. Whether it is music, dance, theater or other forms […]

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The Ano Nobo Quartet captures the history of Cape Verde
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The Ano Nobo Quartet captures the history of Cape Verde

The band has announced the release of The Strings of São Domingos, where the guitars will bear witness to the adventurous life of bandleader Pascoal, and legendary composer Ano Nobo.  Pascoal “El Bruto” is a […]

Cesária Évora: memories of a journey
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Cesária Évora: memories of a journey

10 years after her passing, PAM remembers the diva along with her loved ones, exploring the mark her bare feet left on the world. 

Arabusta Records reissues Tchiss Lopes’ Cape Verdean funaná
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Arabusta Records reissues Tchiss Lopes’ Cape Verdean funaná

The Milan-based label digs up Já Bô Corre D’Mim, initially released in 1984.  With music running through his fingers and a football at his feet, Narciso “Tchiss” Lopes was born on the São Vicente island […]