{"id":41762,"date":"2019-05-09T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/pongo-floats-through-seasons-in-chora-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:52:44","slug":"pongo-floats-through-seasons-in-chora-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pongo-floats-through-seasons-in-chora-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Pongo floats through seasons in &#8216;Chora&#8217; music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynfNo9aQmYo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Lisbon-based, Angola-native singer had fast-tracked to under the spotlights thanks to her featuring on Buraka Som Sistema&#8217;s &#8221; Wegue Wegue &#8220;.<\/h4>\n<p>Despite naming herself after Congolese diva M\u2019Pongo Love, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/tag\/pongo\/\">Pongo<\/a><\/span> does\u00a0not compare unfavourably to any African diva. She blends kuduro, dancehall, electronic beats and hip hop in a personal way tailored for Lisbon&#8217;s urban ears.<\/p>\n<p>She is back with the music video for\u00a0&#8220;Chora&#8221;,\u00a0taken from her\u00a0<em>Baia <\/em>EP released this year. She takes us in a highly aesthetic and poetic journey through seasons, as a visual metaphor for her own growth, from innocence to\u00a0maturity.<\/p>\n<p>Pongo floats through the different scenes, where she interacts with organic 3D elements that echo her artistic outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Discover <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/from-pongo-love-to-pongo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pongo&#8217;s interview<\/a><\/span> we did on the occasion of the release of her EP.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0Pongo\u00a0in our\u00a0Women Power playlist on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0QbBmuahAno6wtpZVHhPLT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/2888457266?app_id=105611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to her <em>Baia<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>EP\u00a0on<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/idol.lnk.to\/Baia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all platforms<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read Next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/karol-conka-curitibas-free-spirit\/\">Karol Conka, Curitiba\u2019s free spirit<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisbon-based, Angola-native singer had fast-tracked to under the spotlights thanks to her featuring on Buraka Som Sistema&#8217;s &#8221; Wegue Wegue &#8220;. Despite naming herself after Congolese diva M\u2019Pongo Love, Pongo does\u00a0not compare unfavourably to any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[4794,5854,6009,6762],"location":[8212],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762"}],"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=41762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41762"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41762"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}