Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute. It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola. A group called Os Kuduristas — ...

This music encapsulated the moment. It is synthed up, but its smooth, tropical sound made it danceable and possible to play when acoustic and electric instruments were few and far between. The older ...

The musician known as Nagrelha died on 18 November in Luanda, succumbing to lung cancer. He was 36 years old. Born Gelson Caio Manuel Mendes in 1986 but better known to all as Nagrelha, he was a ...

Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means “location” or from the Portuguese expression meaning “hard ass” or “stiff bottom” is debated but there's ...

While putting together our Africa issue, the dudes in Buraka Som Sistema hooked us up with some footage shot of them in Angola with kuduro wizard DJ Znobia. The video was unedited and only kind of ...

Luanda — "Continuo ou paro" is the title of the debut album of Kuduro singer Yuri João "Chuculasdmuras" to be launched this year in Luanda. Speaking to Angop, Chuculasdmuras said the CD has tracks ...

It pains me to say it, but it appears kuduro is seriously fading out in Angola. It's so hard to believe. I was there just two years ago, and kuduro was blasting out of every single candongueiro and ...

Luanda — The winners of the second edition of the music contest "Top Kuduro 2011", Própia Lixa, Cabo Snoop and the duo Destino Terrivel and Rodrigão, received, their respective prizes, Friday in ...

Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means “location” or from the Portuguese expression meaning “hard ass” or “stiff bottom” is debated but there's ...