Popular and international music of Angola

Looking at different music in the neighbourhood in South Africa, as well as other Portuguese colonies especially Cape Verde, Angolan music has had a little international success. In the 1880s Angolan musician in the cities conduct test with the popular style music worldwide, including Waltzes and Ballads music. The first half of the Twentieth century come big bands, who release a sing both in Portuguese and Kimbundu.

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The First artist to be known outside the Angolan music was Duo Ouro Negro, created in 1956 after the successful fight in Portugal, couple with the toured to Switzerland, France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. After that comes Orquestra os Jovens do Prenda who were most popular from the late 1960s to the early 1970s and have continued to perform and record occasionally. The big band has two trumpets, a saxophone, four guitars and half dozen percussion instruments. The big band played music like Kizomba (a native style based around the marimba xylophone), using the four guitars to estimate the sound of the marimba, and the quilapanga.

Carlos Vieira Dias a guitarist, however, become the father of Angolan popular music, he introduced the bands of Dikanza (scraper, ngomas (conga drums) and violas, which became popular in 1950 in the urban places. Dias was in prisoned in Portugal for several years.