Cape Verdean

/ ˈvɜːdɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Cape Verde or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Cape Verde

Example Sentences

The Cape Verdean diaspora especially in France, Luxembourg, Portugal, and the US have launched urgent crowdfunding campaigns.

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Early written records of Cape Verdean music are scarce - the Portuguese colonists did not document life and society on Cape Verde other than records of taxes and commodities.

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Many younger Cape Verdean musicians tend not to play the islands' older rhythms, and some like the contradança are slowly dying out.

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When she was a young child and taking too long to get ready for school, family get-togethers or to sing in the church choir, Cape Verdean musician Carmen Souza was often told to "ariope".

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She has combined jazz and English sea shanties with Cape Verdean rhythms - including the funaná, played on an iron rod with a knife and the accordion, and the batuque, played by women and based on African drumming rhythms.

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