The Cape Verdes has been called “the tiny island paradise where people breathe music”. For more information see Music of Cape Verde and Capeverdean music.
Music
Tibau Tavares
For more information, please see Tibau Tavares on Facebook.
Dance
Batuk/Batuque
The batuque is probably the oldest musical genre in Cape Verde, but there are written records of it only from the 19th century. In a batuque session, a group of performers, almost always just women, gather themselves in a circle that is called terreru [teˈʀeɾu]. Its origins are African and it’s a form of dancing that is based around complex interlocking drum patterns and generally performed within a circle of female drummers with each dancer gyrating her hips wildly until the drum patterns reach a climax at which point she is replaced by the next dancer. For ore information, please see Batuque (music and dance) and www.facebook.com/tropikalmaio/videos/1487727514800076.