MurthalaFançony Bravo de Oliveira

MurthalaFançony Bravo de Oliveira known with the name Dog Murras was born on the 17^th February 1977. He is an Angolan kuduro musician and a songwriter who is stemming from the latest generation of the modern day urban music of the country, Angola.

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Early Career

MurthalaFançony Bravo de Oliveira started practicing as a musician as a student of the Fine Art high School in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the year 1995, with the overwhelming hunger for the act of writing music, he went upstage at the Johannesburg’s Flava nightclub to snatch the 3^rd place at the ragamuffin music contest.  After one year, he spurred on by a relative of his, who got him introduced to a Luanda-based radio talk show host known as Miguel Neto who was amazed after hearing the music of MurthalaFançony Bravo de Oliveira, and he gave him encouragement to use a more serious approach in his music.

While he was still in South Africa, Eduardo Paim was amazed with the raw talent of the young man and he promised to help him when he got home. Eduardo was at his initial plan to set up a recording studio in Luanda. In the year 1995, with the praise from the names mentioned above, Dog Murras went back to his country and to Luanda with a strong mindset to start an official career in the music industry of the country, register his murraspower brand and conquer the music market of the country. In the early moves he made, he was joined by Eduardo Paim’s boys like Flay, Gabriel Tcheim, Mister Kim and several others.

Musical Career

After growing as a singer in the country, Dog Murras recorded his first singly music called Don’t Know that was dropped as part of the PombaBranca charity project. A CD project that incorporated music like Irmãos Almeida’s "Epyto", N’Sex Love’s "CasoSério", Gabriel Tchiema’s "Tchingoloshy" and Versáteis’ "Menino da Lua" and many others, ensured the winning of the single called Don’t Know. In the year 1998 and in the year 1999, Dog Murras was being looked for by many other musicians. He was featured in songs like Luck Seimol’s "Sofropor Ti no Roque", Mister Kim’s "Girl", Flay’s "Com Doçura" and also in a re-release of Eduardo Paím’s "A MinhaVizinha".

In the year 1999, Dog Murras recorded his debut music album called Sui Genesis, having NeloPaim to be the instrumentalist and co-producer of the music album and the owner of the EP Estudios being Eduardo Paim, who is the executive producer of the album.

Discography

Ø  Sui Generis (1999)

Ø  Natural e Diferente (2001)

Ø  BuéAngolano (2003)

Ø  PátriaNossa (2005)

Ø  Angolanidade (2011)