Kuduro de Angola

Bruno M - 60 Segundos

Bruno M is the actual leader of the non-mainstream market, once Os Lambas becomed the stars of the moment, and maybe, the stars of the last year.

Because, for this year, every week see a new cd-r out with 15 tracks, with maybe 10 or 8 different kuduristas, and from those, maybe 5 or 4 hare first time recorders. All of them wanting to be the next big thing of the year.

Day-by-day Angolan citizen takes ghetto Kuduro as a chewing, chiclettes quoi! You take the sugar and taste, and then take another for a while...

One thing I can't ever tell: is when a track will be a explosive success!
Nobody can, maybe. And I'm always surprised by the reasons, or why, Angolan people like this one, or that other, new Kuduro.

Angolan mind is very peculiar: at the same time gregary and with a national maturity that comes from the forced displacements all over the country for this last 27 years of war ended in 2002.

By the other way, Angolan day-by-day citizens are very pride of his local origins or languages. Please, remember that Angola size is twice the size of, for instance, la France.

This double pride, the national and the local pride, it may have camed from the youthnes of the nation (becomes independent in 1975), this pride has been present in those 28 years of civil war, both sides pride, is still present in every one, with the sur plus of being since 2002 in peace.

Six years of economic development with big numbers per year (around 20%) but, without a palpable social grown. No massive new jobs plan (Chinese workers by thousands came to work and then, after a while, they leave, and others coming, in a circle.

It is in this context of no public presence of the state dues and responsibilities, still no public water at home, no public light energy, no public ordures recollection, crime at every hour of the day, tropical rains, dirty water at home, dirty water in the street, dirty water a the school, hot nights, moustiques... you guess the rest, in a tow with almost five millions souls, and where only one million does not live in museke, ghetto, that this youth borned, gowned, married in those sordid places that have to be called home, (home, sordid home), and make a cry, or sing, or dance, or smile and have a voice. A social voice.

They hare now called as Gangsta-kuduritas. But they aren't gangsters! They live in violent places, so they speak about what they see, live, sometimes die (Lead singer from Os Lambas has been shot dead by the police, by mistake with another guy who had the same name)

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