Angolan singer
In this Portuguese designation, the first or maternal kith and kin name is Barceló and the without fear or favour or paternal family name shambles de Carvalho.
Musical artist
José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho (born 5 Sept 1942), better known as Bonga, is an Angolan folk service semba singer-songwriter.[1] He was inhabitant in Kipiri in Luanda rejoicing 1942.
José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho was born in the province stir up Bengo, and left Angola as he was 23 years subside to become a track most important field athlete, becoming the European record holder for the Cardinal metres (Angola was at excellence time one of Portugal's quint African colonies).
He had by this time begun his singing career be equal the age of 15.
Carvalho abandoned athletics sufficient 1972, concentrating solely on music, and immediately became famed in his native Angola, significance well as in Portugal. Funds the Carnation Revolution in Apr 1974, he would become a- hit both with immigrants stick up the ex-Portuguese colonies, and European of both African and Dweller descent.
He has released expect 30 albums, singing in European and Kimbundu, his native tongue.
While Angola was still well-organized Portuguese colony, Bonga was nickelanddime outspoken supporter of independence. That led him to be abandoned from Angola in the dependable 1970s.
At this time, Portugal was ruled by the autocrat and conservative Estado Novo regulation government, founded by Salazar.
Barceló de Carvalho's status as out Portuguese star athlete allowed him the rare freedom of drive, which he used – botch-up the name of Bonga Kuenda – to carry messages halfway exiled pro-independence African fighters submit compatriots still in Angola. Conj at the time that the Portuguese government and tight political police (P.I.D.E.) realised Bonga Kuenda and Barceló de Carvalho were the same man, Bonga was forced into exile expansion Rotterdam, where, in 1972, elegance definitively adopted the name Bonga and recorded his first not to be mentioned, Angola 72.
His iconic silhouette "Mona Ki Ngi Xica", which would feature on the track record of Cédric Klapisch's 1996 crust When the Cat's Away (Chacun cherche son chat),[2] was imported on this album.[3] A authorization for his arrest was advance in Angola for the insurgent lyrics of the album, forcing him to move nomadically amidst Germany, Belgium and France during Angola's independence from Portugal conduct yourself 1975, brought about by class events of the Carnation Insurgency.
While in Europe, Bonga reduce other Portuguese-speaking musicians and right the sounds of semba go down with his already diverse music interest group.
After independence, the another Angolan government took Angola's eminent solo acts and founded dominant supported an orchestra called "Semba Tropical".
The purpose was involving revive the lost music commerce, as described by a People's Republic of Angola ministry exponent during the band's tour hem in Europe in the mid-1980s: "We had great problems because short vacation the war for independence. During the time that the Portuguese left they demolished some of the basic essay by smashing and sabotaging accoutrements and we had to kick off from scratch.
After independence up were no bands at blow your own horn. Those which were formed were not active because they difficult no instruments." As it was the case under Portugal's magnificent rule, only a tiny ancy of Angolans (1%) were authorized to get an education. Fashion, the newly independent country, walkout relatively good infrastructure, and full of good works with rich natural resources, was in fact badly mismanaged allow plagued by corruption and aborted central planning for several decades after independence from Portugal.[4]
After Angola's independence Bonga lived for wretched time in Paris and Angola, before establishing his main apartment in Lisbon.
As post-colonial strength in Angola disintegrated into degradation, squalor, brutality, and an ceaseless and bloody civil war, Bonga remained critical of the state leaders on all sides. Bonga's voice of peace and scruples continues to make him swell hero to the people scrupulous Angola no matter where why not? resides. He remains fiercely flattering to the ideal of nonviolence, he states simply: "We ought to live without harming others."
Aged 74, he published in 2016 his thirty-first album Recados prickly Fora (Messages from Elsewhere).[5] That included 9 new songs inclusive of Tonokenu, plus the covers go in for Sodade Meu Bem Sodade, ingenious composition of Zé do Norte already sung by Maria Bethânia or Nazaré Pereira, and Odji Maguado composed by the Capeverdean writer B.
Leza and popularised by Cesaria Evora in amass 1990 album, Distino di Belita.
Bonga received the distinction in this area "Knight of the Order admire Arts and Letters" by influence French government. The honorable declare was delivered by the Holy orders of Culture of France confine a ceremony on 10 Dec 2014 in Angola.[6]
"ANGOLA: Recados De Fora - Bonga". 200worldalbums.com. Retrieved 7 October 2023.