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Weekly Music Video

This week's video is Vai by Calema, a Portuguese music duo originally from São Tomé and Príncipe, islands off the west coast of Africa. It's made up of brothers António and Fradique Mendes Ferreira, who have been singing since they were young. They went on to study music in Portugal and later moved to France. The name "Calema" means a  ripple on the African coast, as the waves always carry something special with them, and they as a duo bring music, smiles and culture. (I hope this is right, since I translated it into English from their Facebook page using Google Translate!) :)

Calema have released one album, A Nossa Vez (A.N.V)(which translates as "Our Turn" in English) which features the popular single of the same name. This year they entered Festival da Canção 2019, the Portuguese music competition to select Portugal's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. Their song A Dois (For Two) got to the final. The winner was Conan Osíris with Telemoveis (Mobile Phones).

On a side note: Can you believe it's only two months till Eurovision?! Seems to have come round quickly again! This year the Grand Final will be held on 18th May.

The video for Vai (Go) was uploaded to YouTube in February 2016.


For more on Calema visit these links:

Kora biography:  http://www.koraawards.com/en/music/biography-calema/

Official FB: https://www.facebook.com/calema.st/

KlassziK YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP6u9OBUd4M6U4yzSuv4UNw

Portuguese music fan? You might like these posts:

Lizha James and Perola- Leva Boy (Mozambican and Angolan: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/02/weekly-music-video_12.html

Perola- Eu Espero: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2017/01/weekly-music-video_18.html

P.S. If you're in the mood for early Eurovision inspiration, check out last year's posts:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/05/countdown-to-eurovision.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/05/selection-of-eurovision-songs.html


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