Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan musician and composer Filipe Mukenga plans to put an end to his career spanning almost 60 years, the artist announced on his Facebook page this Thursday.
On his social network, the renowned musician, who reflects on his trajectory, says he is considering the end of his work in music with the work entitled “MEU ÚLTIMO DISCO”, leaving thousands of other songs to be recorded in the trunk.
“The compositions, with me, they come in a torrent that is difficult to stop if not just, getting divorced, from time to time from the guitar. It is the solution I found to block my creative torrent”, writes the author of “Humbi Humbi” and “Nvula”, among several successes.
He informs that he has a record project that, initially, he decided to call Tritonalities, three discs gathered in a single project and encompassing 36 songs to be worked on by three arrangers or producers.
However, he mentions that it is difficult to find patrons who are willing to finance it. “I hope that with the revision of the old Patronage Law, more attractive, in terms of more interesting tax benefits, I can finally see Tritonalidades, now entitled MY LAST DISCO, with which, and currently, I have been seriously thinking about , in saying goodbye to music”.
Francisco Filipe da Conceição Gumbe, or simply Filipe Mukenga, was born on September 5, 1949, in Luanda, where he started singing very early.
During his youth he went through rock formations such as The Five Kings, The Black Stars, Indómitos, Apollo II, Brucutus and Os Rocks. With his friend Zé Agostinho, he formed the Duo Missosso and started collecting the traditional songbook.
In the early 1980s, as a result of his musical eclecticism, he bet on dissonant national sounds and created NMA, New Angolan Music, open to the world, with “various styles and musical trends, which include the collection of traditional music, the influences of popular music, Brazilian music, Rock and the rhythmic and vocal suggestions of Jazz”.
In his discography we find “Novo Som”, “Kianda Kianda”, “Mimbu Iami”, “Nós Somos Somos” and “Meu Lado Gumbe” and several projects with his musical partner Filipe Zau, with emphasis on the trilogy “Canto da Sereia – The Enchantment”.
The album “Canções & Destino” is in the works, with proportional themes presented in the project “Tribute to the Great Ones of Our Music” by Guelvamos Produções, in partnership with Unitel.
Filipe Mukenga received the National Culture and Arts Award in 2021.
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