Whether the word Kuduro comes from the Kimbundu language, native to northern Angola and means “location” or from the Portuguese expression meaning “hard ass” or “stiff bottom” is debated but there's ...

Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute. It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola. A group called Os Kuduristas — ...

Over the break I was introduced to a whole genre of music and dance I had no idea existed. A friend told me about this movement called Kuduro (pronounced koo-doo-roo), which is centered in Angola, ...

Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago. If you reside in the blogosphere, you would not be totally crazy to think ...

The musician known as Nagrelha died on 18 November in Luanda, succumbing to lung cancer. He was 36 years old. Born Gelson Caio Manuel Mendes in 1986 but better known to all as Nagrelha, he was a ...

Angolan singer Yuri da Cunha affirmed this weekend in Lobito city, Benguela province, that Angolan genre Kuduro (music and dance style) has conquered space in international market, particularly in ...

Luanda — "Continuo ou paro" is the title of the debut album of Kuduro singer Yuri João "Chuculasdmuras" to be launched this year in Luanda. Speaking to Angop, Chuculasdmuras said the CD has tracks ...

In this episode of Smirnoff and Mixmag’s ongoing documentary series Global Dancefloor viewers are transported to the African nation of Angola to explore how the country’s booming musical export of ...

An exuberant, fast-paced electronic dance music born during a civil war has started traveling from its southwestern African home to dance floors... 'Kuduro,' The Dance That Keeps Angola Going Kuduro ...