Night has fallen over Angola's Luanda Bay, but the waterfront is alive with couples swaying to the sensual beats of Kizomba music. The dance and music genre was developed in the Angolan capital in the ...

LUANDA (Reuters) - It's a warm humid afternoon in Luanda Bay - an urban waterfront on Angola's Atlantic shore. Pairs of dancers in close embrace sway their hips from left to right and shuffle their ...

A short lesson in Angolan music from Isacorreia: “Semba is a typical Angolan genre rooted in traditional carnival rhythms, such as kilapanga, rebita, kazukuta and kabetula…Kizomba is a new Afro style ...

Luanda — The Angolan government wants to present to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) the application of the Kizomba dance style as Intangible Heritage of ...

Kizomba is a style of dance which has become really prominent in Angolan culture in recent decades. The word "Kizomba" means "celebration" or "party" in Kimbundu, a Bantu language. The dance style ...

Luanda — The pioneer of the music and dancing of style kizomba in Angolan music market, Eduardo Paim was deemed on Saturday in Luanda an outstanding figure and icon of the national music. Speaking to ...

Singer C4 Pedro is known as the 'king of Kizomba', one of the most popular styles of music in Angola. However, he actually started his musical career in Belgium, as he told the BBC. 'King of Kizomba' ...

As New York-trained dancer duo, Namrata Wittke and Elvis Mascarenhas, bring the sensuous Angolan dance form of Kizomba to Mumbai, we match steps to learn how to set the dance floors on fire As we ...

The free-flowing African style has enthusiasts setting the dance floor on fire Dubai: After proving to be a massive hit in Southern Africa and Portugal, a new Angolan dance style, Kizomba, is setting ...

Kizomba, which means “party” in Kimbundu, one of Angola’s local languages, is a dance and music genre which developed in the 1980’s in the capital Luanda, swiftly becoming a part of Angolan cultural ...