Bonga Kwenda, better known as Bonga, is a pop singer and songwriter from Angola. Bonga was born José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho in 1943 in the province of Bengo, and left Angola at age 23 to become an athlete, becoming the Angolan record holder for the 400 metre dash. He had already begun is singing career at age 15. For the 1979 song by M, see Pop Muzik. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... Bengo is a province of Angola. ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ...

Bonga abandoned athletics in 1972, concentrating solely on his music, and immediately became famous in his native country, as well as Portugal, where he became a hit both with immigrants from the ex-colonies, and Portuguese of both African and European descent. He has released over 30 albums, singing in Portuguese and traditional angolan languages. His tracks are a mixture of Portuguese folk sounds, semba and latin elements. A traditional type of music from the Southern-African country of Angola. ... Latin American music, or the music of Latin America, is sometimes called Latin music. ...

While Angola was still a Portuguese colony, Bonga was an outspoken independency support. This lead him to be exiled from Angola in the early 70s. It was during this time that he launched his first album, Angola 72. World map of colonialism at the end of the Second World War in 1945. ...

External links

• Site Official de Kizomba
• Radio Canal Angola ONLINE