Artist Profiles: Antonio Chainho
Antonio Chainho was born in 1938 in Santiago do Cacém, Portugal. He is a Portuguese musician who has been dedicating his career to the Portuguese…
Artist Profiles: Armenio de Melo
Armenio de Melo was born in Santa Maria de Lamas, Portugal in 1953. He is considered one of the best guitar players of fado, recognized…
Tsuumi Sound System To Release Blinking Light
Finnish world music band Tsuumi Sound System is set to release its new album Blinking Light on December 25, 2018. Blinking Light is the band’s…
Artist Profiles: Dulce Pontes
She could have been a dancer, had the dance school not thought that, at fourteen years of age, she was too old to start a…
Lusafrica Reissues Two Essential Polo Montañez Albums
Acclaimed Cuban singer-songwriter Polo Montañez died in a car accident in Cuba 16 years ago, on November 26, 2002. He was one of the leading…
Global Visions of Ska
Various Artists – Ska Around the World (Putumayo World Music, 2018) Putumayo compilation Ska Around the World takes the listener on a lively trip throughout…
Artist Profiles: Tania Libertad
Tania Libertad de Souza Zuñiga was born in the small coastal town town of Zana in northern Peru, of a Portuguese father and a Peruvian…
Artist Profiles: Eva Ayllón
One of the most important interpreters of Peruvian music, Eva Ayllón began singing at the age of three, under her grandmother’s tutelage. Within a few…
Artist Profiles: Przemyslaw Goc
Przemyslaw Goc, better known as Ainu, is a leading artist in the domain of ethnic-world music in Poland with an artistic output consisting of CDs,…
Artist Profiles: Jerzy Bawol
Born in Cracow in 1969, Jerzy Bawol started playing the accordion in elementary school at the age of nine and gave his first concert at…