Boston Mozambican Band

Born in Mozambique, the leader of this Boston Mozambican Band is undoubtedly the most dynamic and revolutionary Mozambican musician of the moment, committed to divulging the music of his country in the world. He is also a television presenter and a full-time social activist. He became in 2012 the first Mozambican musician to register a brand and consequently launch a perfume.

Boston Mozambican Band style

The leader of this Boston Mozambican Band combines traditional and contemporary Mozambican music with revolutionary instrumentation to create an energetic and danceable sound that can be called Afro/Pop/ Jazz. Contagious rhythms mixed with sweet but powerful melodies carry a message of hope but at the same time it would revolutionize new times in Africa and the world, challenging the laziest foot for a dance and the laziest head for a reflection of the role that music plays in communication with the masses.

History: Born in Cuamba, a small village in the Mozambican province of Niassa, the leader of this Boston Mozambican Band won his first guitar at a charity event when he was a young boy. In 1997, five years after the end of the country’s civil war, he recorded his first album, which opened space for many other Mozambican artists to do the same.

Since then, this musician has toured Europe, Africa, the United States and the Caribbean, performing at major festivals such as Beat Apartheid! Houston International Festival, alongside legends such as Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Abdullah Ibrahim, Gilberto Gil, Jimmy Dludlu, Mike Del Ferro and others.

Boston Mozambican Band historical tour

In 2009, the leader of this Boston Mozambican Band and his legendary band renewed once again the votes of Mozambican popular music in a historical tour through Europe where they participated in 21 concerts including the legendary festivals of Kasumama in Austria, Tom de Festa and World Music LX in Portugal and still at the Lent Festival in Slovenia.

The most desired reunion of the leader of this Boston Mozambican Band career comes when Elizah, singer gaucha introduces him to the CASA GRANDE project in New Olinda in Brazil where he participated in the sample of the culture of the Portuguese Language Countries to Filipe Mukenga’s Lab, Elizah Rodrigues. In this project he met the arts director of the Cultural Center of ITAU Sao Paulo, who invites him to participate in four shows in the Antidoto project with the Band Afroreggae of RJ, accompanied by other figures of Brazilian music such as:Jardes Macale, Arnaldo Antunes and others not less important.

The leader of this Boston Mozambican Band became the most awarded Mozambican musician of the largest festival of the popular song of Mozambique: the Ngoma, with 3 prizes of the Most Popular Music. Bilboard magazine of June 7, 1997 conferred on him the same level of Pope Wemba and other consecrated African musicians.

The leader of this Boston Mozambican Band is a member of the African Evaluation and Consultation Committee of the African Scholars Program of the Berklee College of Music (USA/ Boston/Mass) where other great African artists such as Angelique Kidjo, Richard Bona, Bakiti Kumalo, Lionel Loueke and Mulato Astakte. He links his music to social aspects, working in coordination with national HIV/AIDS campaigns, with the National Elections Commission, UNICEF and other humanitarian aid organizations with the goal of expanding knowledge about HIV/AIDS, the importance of Voting and Human Rights.

In March 2010 he signed a partnership agreement with UNICEF. In 2012 he was appointed by Unicef the Ambassador of Good Will. Nkhuvu/Celebration: In November 2007, he released the album, “Nkhuvu”, which means “Celebration” featuring great musicians like Lokua Kanza, Jimmy Dludlu, Bonga, Artur Maia and Elizah – just to name a few. In this album, he sings in Portuguese, English, Shitswa, Ekoti, Shangana, Gitonga, Ciyao and Shimakonde, most languages never represented on a single Mozambican album. Inspired by Bantu languages, the base of various parts of Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau, the leader of this Boston Mozambican Band captured the voice of Africa Lusofona.