Wazimbo launches new CD “Roots”

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Wazimbo launches new CD “Roots”

2:40 CAT | 03 Jun 2016

RM (File photo) / Wazimbo, one of the living legends of Mozambican music

Mozambican musician Wazimbo is launching his lastest album “Raízes” in Maputo today, 18 years after his last solo work, “Makwêro”.

Wazimbo’s new album is sponsored by BCI bank and is produced by Emidio Semedo of Nambu Productions. Musician friends, including Hortêncio Langa, Otis, Tony Paco and Leman Pinto among others have participated in the 12-track CD.

An inescapable presence in Mozambique arts and culture, Humberto Carlos Benfica, better known as Wazimbo, was born in the late 40’s in Mafalala, in what was then Lourenço Marques, where he has lived ever since, producing a vast musical repertoire across the decades.

His international career began in the 70s when in 1972 he headed for Angola to play with the band “Dinosaurs”. He returned to Mozambique two years later.

He then joined the Mozambican Association of Musicians, AMMO, and sang with one of the most important bands in the country, the RM Group alongside artists like Sox, Zeca Tcheco, Alexandre and Milagre Langa among others.

In the 80s, he joined the “Orquestra Marrabenta Star de Moçambique”, with whom he recorded the “Independencia” and “Marrabenta” albums released by the German label, Piranha.

Source: Rádio Moçambique