coladeira
what it is
Native to the Cape Verde islands, coladeira has its roots in another Cape Verdian genre of music, the Morna, and has a history going back to the 1930s when Anton’ Tchitch’ experimented with the compositions of morna pieces by increasing the tempo and making the music more lively. Although these mornas were called coladeiras at the time, they were still idenitified as being mornas rather than belonging to a new style. Between the 1950s and the 1970s however, the coladeira underwent much change and development, utilizing electric instruments and taking influence from the popular musics of Latin America, Africa (particularly the other former Portugese colonies Angola and Guinea-Bissau) and Britain.
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What is coladeira?
Native to the Cape Verde islands, coladeira has its roots in another Cape Verdian genre of music, the Morna, and has a history going back to the 1930s when Anton’ Tchitch’ experimented with the compositions of morna pieces by increasing the tempo and making the music more lively. Although these mornas were called coladeiras at the time, they were still idenitified as being mornas rather than belonging to a new style. Between the 1950s and the 1970s however, the coladeira underwent much change and development, utilizing electric instruments and taking influence from the popular musics of Latin America, Africa (particularly the other former Portugese colonies Angola and Guinea-Bissau) and Britain.
What are good coladeira albums to start with?
Try Dança Ma Mi Criola by Tito Paris and Um Click by Jenifer Solidade.
Who are some women making coladeira?
musicisforgirls.com/genres/coladeira/girls lists women, non-binary artists, and bands with women making coladeira, from mainstream to underground.
genre notes from last.fm listeners · artists and albums from last.fm, updated 2026-10-22