{"id":5080,"date":"2014-04-14T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T19:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orijinculture.com\/community\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2014-09-02T03:07:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T09:07:42","slug":"kuduro-orijin-popular-rythm-fusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/kuduro-orijin-popular-rythm-fusing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuduro: You’ve danced to it but do you know…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/iframe><\/p>\nIf you\u2019ve gone to a club in any of the major metropolitan cities, chances are that you were dancing to the Don Omar\u2019s \u201cDanza Kuduro\u201d jam. This song hit the pop charts and bill boards at #1 during 2010 and for good reason. This French based artist of Portuguese descent has brought the dance of Kuduro to the masses, but is not the orijinator of this vibrant music.<\/p>\nDuring the late 1980\u2019s in the streets of Luanda, Angola, Kuduro was born. The credit goes to young musicians in this West African Country started mixing African percussion samples with simple calypso and soca rhythms to create a style of music then known as “batida\u201d, According to Toby Rogers, \u201cKuduro isn\u2019t world music. Well, not the kind of world music that finds its way onto Later with Jools Holland or a Damon Albarn album. This is the raw, uncompromising sound of the streets of Luanda, Angola. Meaning \u2018hard ass\u2019 or \u2018stiff bottom\u2019, it combines traditional Angolan Kilapanga, Semba and Zouk with Western house and techno.\u201d Kuduro makes one feel alive and free \u2013 ready to conquer the world. Possibly this is the reason it is so popular in its home country and many of countries with Portuguese influence. Angola has gone through and continues to go through its struggles and Kuduro is a opportunity for the people to take a break, enjoy music, dance and free their minds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\u201cKuduro is our Baile funk,\u201d says Joao Xavier, a Portuguese music journalist and champion of Kuduro\u2019s European fusion. \u201cIt came from the streets. From the poor people right to your heart and feet. To make everybody think about life. With a good positive message. We are black or white and we are moving forward. Together, we conquer the world.\u201d Kalaf Angelo, the Angolian-born founder of Lisbon\u2019s independent Enchufada label, agrees: \u201cKuduro represents Angola today, with no softness or need to be politically correct. It\u2019s free music that doesn\u2019t need the major labels to spread and become popular. It\u2019s all people choice. Very demanding, very fast, very raw and very honest. You cannot pretend to be something you are not. Those are the rules when it comes to Kuduro.\u201d<\/p>\nFeel intrigued???\u00a0 Take a break from life and enjoy some Kuduro<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LzeIFyt3NHI\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CdrynMt1snA\" width=\"635\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5083\" title=\"The orijin of Kuduro music and dance\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kuduro4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n <\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5082\" title=\"kudoro from angola\" src=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kudoro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve gone to a club in any of the major metropolitan cities, chances are that you were dancing to the Don Omar\u2019s \u201cDanza Kuduro\u201d <a class=\"moretag signature-animation\" href=\"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/kuduro-orijin-popular-rythm-fusing\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2993],"tags":[4527,4534,4162,3479,4529,4526,4530,4531,4525,4533,3775,4532,4528],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hidden-cultures","tag-angola-music","tag-batida","tag-calypso","tag-culture","tag-danza-kuduro","tag-don-omar","tag-joao-xavier","tag-kalaf-angelo","tag-kuduro","tag-portuguese-decent","tag-soca","tag-toby-rogers","tag-zouk"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kuduro4.jpg?wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6080,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/6080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orijinculture.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}