Music of Cape Verde

musical practice of Cabo Verde

music and musical traditions of Cape Verde

music and dance genre from Cape Verde

The coladeira ( ; , ) is a music genre from Cape Verde.

thumb|300px|Female funaná dancers.

2006 film by Júlio Silvão Tavares

"Sodade" is a Cape Verdean song written in the 1950s by Armando Zeferino Soares, and best popularized by Cesária Évora on her 1992 album Miss Perfumado. The name is the Cape Verdean Creole variant of the Portuguese term saudade.