Angola: Musicians Plead for More Aid to Record CDs

Angola: Musicians Plead for More Aid to Record CDs

Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

2 October 2008
Posted to the web 2 October 2008

Huambo

Musicians in the central Huambo Province are appealing for more support from local businesspeople and other entities, for them to record albums.

ANGOP learnt this after interviewing recently several local musicians, who were unanimous in recognising that due to the development that music in this province has achieved, it would be a great incentive if every year two Cds by Huambo Province singers were released.

"Music in Huambo Province is on the right path. Both the veteran musicians and the artists of the new generation have been engaged in doing their best, but incentives are missing for musicians to be able to release CDs to be listened to throughout the country ", the musician and songwriter João Baptista Joly said.

To the artist Valter Tchaly, the lack of Cds by Huambo musicians contradicts the current state of development that the local music has achieved.

"Whenever a local singer releases an album, they are always praised by musicians from other provinces, therefore I assume that with more support local musicians might be references for the country. ", he underlined.

On her turn, the singer Lily de Vasconcelos, who also shares the same opinion of the other musicians, said that the local entrepreneurs and government should invest in the creation of musicians training centres, in order to upgrade their melody making performances.

"There is quality, but it is not enough. A lot of musicians, though they have shown a lot of abnegation and dedication, do not have any musical training", she regretted.