Shake Your Booty – Lowdown on Three Santomean Ways to Get Down
Kaysa, the web-savvy African icon 2.0, giving a concert at O Pirata. Photo by Kaisha.
In São Tomé and Príncipe, Portuguese folk music fused with African rhythms, much like in Brazil (a country which Saotomeans really love), has produced some spectacular music.
Santomean pop music has a lot in common with mainland African music, much more than with music from Portugal. Shared language with the brother nations as they are called – Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Angola and Mozambique – also means a lot of music tranfer is going on – be it Cabo Love or Kizomba.