{"id":41066,"date":"2020-01-13T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/pongo-touches-the-sky-in-brightful-music-video-canto\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:33:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:33:20","slug":"pongo-touches-the-sky-in-brightful-music-video-canto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pongo-touches-the-sky-in-brightful-music-video-canto\/","title":{"rendered":"Pongo touches the sky in brightful music video &#8216;Canto&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xssksl9CbXw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Pongo sings about her unconditional love\u00a0for music on &#8220;Canto&#8221;, the first single from her new EP <em>Uwa, <\/em>out on February 7th.<\/h4>\n<p>Lisbon-based, Angola-native singer,\u00a0Pongo embodies the renewal of kuduro, mixing her African, Langan &amp; Zairian roots with EDM, dancehall and melodic pop. On her brand new track &#8220;Canto&#8221;, the\u00a0shortly cropped hair artist explores Latin rhythms and sings in Spanish for the first time. The theme behind &#8220;Canto&#8221; is\u00a0about the love and pleasure she has in making music. Pongo explains more about the song: &#8220;<em>The pleasure I have in singing, I decided that my expression of this feeling in a trip to the Latin rhythms once again concludes the diversity of cultures in my compositions is one of the freedoms that most enjoy making music<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canto&#8221; is a celebration of her turbulent path to a career in music, and she uses wonderfully well her<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u00a0powerful but equa<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">lly\u00a0delicate voice to draws us into her world.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\">It&#8217;s accompanied by a sober but nonetheless beautiful\u00a0music video, which highlights\u00a0the outskirts districts of Lisbon with\u00a0gorgeous\u00a0shots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35090\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3c58c9ef-pongo-canto-clip-3.gif\" alt=\"Pongo - Canto - clip \" width=\"983\" height=\"642\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35088\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/b4b15420-pongo-canto-clip-2.gif\" alt=\"Pongo - Canto - clip 2\" width=\"995\" height=\"587\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pongo sings about her unconditional love\u00a0for music on &#8220;Canto&#8221;, the first single from her new EP Uwa, out on February 7th. Lisbon-based, Angola-native singer,\u00a0Pongo embodies the renewal of kuduro, mixing her African, Langan &amp; Zairian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[4096,6010],"location":[8212],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41066"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41066"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}