TRACK 10
Waldemar Bastos – Viva Angola
(Angola)
Music and lyrics by Waldemar Bastos
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Ex-Talking Heads singer David Byrne by chance bought one of Waldemar’s albums in a Lisbon record store. Entranced by what he heard, he tracked down the singer and signed him to his Luaka Bop label for 1997’s award-winning Arto Lindsay-produced album, Pretaluz/Blacklight. The album established him on the international world music stage and since then, Waldemar has toured America, Europe and the Far East.
Waldemar Bastos (Foto: Joke Schot)
“As a great sports and soccer fan, I was so happy that my country Angola, qualified for the World Cup. When asked to write a song for the ‘Play Up’ compilation, I felt honoured and inspired to write a song that hopefully could length many World Cup’s of Angola to come.”
Waldemar Bastos
Performed and produced by Waldemar Bastos
Recorded in Lisbon, December 2005
appears courtesy of World Connection (The Netherlands)
www.waldemarbastos.com / www.worldconnection.nl
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