Waldemar Bastos
Waldemar Bastos (born 1954 in Cabinda ) is an Angolan singer.
He was born 1954 in Cabinda, a city in the same Angolan exclave of Cabinda on the coast between the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. His musical activity began at the age of seven, when he learned to play the accordion. His parents worked as a mobile nurse, whom he accompanied often. He learned so much from the traditional music of Angola know, but also about the beginnings of pop culture. With his first band, Jovial, played Waldemar pop, tango, waltz and other dance music. The political police of the Portuguese imprisoned him short because he commencement against the situation in the country.
After Angola's independence in 1975, the situation for him was not easy. Many artists were killed, either because they are of political collaboration with Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola ( MPLA ) or União Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola (UNITA ) withdrawn or decided in this respect wrong. Waldemar Bastos was indeed very courted by both sides, but withdrew from both. When he visited with a cultural delegation in 1982 Portugal, he fled. He used the exile musically to develop. In Brazil, he made his first recordings. But only the CD Preta Luz was his breakthrough. Shortly after the end of the civil war in Angola in 2002 he was in Luanda " as the musical guest of honor of the government" at the National Stadium and a celebrated sold-out concert with national scope with these songs.