Para ser completamente sincero, a música lusófona provávelmente não tem o significado forte que tem para algumas pessoas da minha geração, visto que mais de 90% do que oiço diariamente é cantado noutra lingua senão o português.
Mas sei o que é ter saudades da minha cidade, com lágrimas nos olhos, quando o Paulo Flores começava a cantar o seu "já vi mar banhar a areia, em Luanda..." Isto porque para mim, musica é memoria, sobretudo quando cantada na lingua que me viu a nascer.
About Massalo:
One of his favorite lusophone artists is Waldemar Bastos, in the title photo, and one of my favorite photos of his is the one directly above. After months of compulsive photo stealing from Massalo's Flickr page (many of his exquisite photographs grace this website), I finally got to meet the exciting photographer in person and can now call him a friend. You can spend hours going over his photos, and if you're busy right now, I thoroughly recommend a visit to his website as another way to procrastinate. You can read Massalo's blog and marvel at his work here, here and here. Oh, and here too.
“Without music, life would be an error.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Caipirinha Lounge is all about music in Portuguese or by Lusophone artists. It's born out of a sincere belief that Lusophone music should reach a much larger audience. The lounge features music from Brazil, Angola, Portugal, Guine-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé & Principe, Mozambique, Galicia, and even Timor-Leste. Occasionally, there will be posts about singers so good that the fact that they do not sing in Portuguese is momentarily overlooked.
The purpose of this bilingual blog is purely educational. Plug in your earphones and hear rhythms from places you have never heard of, from artists you have never heard about, sung in the world's most beautiful language. If you like a song, you can download it by right clicking on it and then clicking "save target as". If you like it a lot, buy the cd, support the artist, keep good music alive.
If you are a singer or a label and want a particular song taken down, please contact me. Or, if you have music you think I will enjoy, do send! claudio.silva(at)caipirinhalounge.com
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