kuduro

alternative kuduru

1. uncountableentertainmentAn energetic, danceable style of music originating in Angola, combining local styles like semba with influences from Caribbean music, especially zouk and soca.

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   'This is how we do it in Lisbon,' he warns with gruff Portuguese annunciation. Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour. Originating in Angola and exported to the suburban colonies in and around Lisbon, kuduro combines age-old African rhythms with euro-techno, samba, calypso and a healthy dose of hip hop bravado.

   2008 March 23, Jaimie Hodgson, “When kuduro came to town”, in The Observer, →ISSN