The Music Integration Group of the Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia International Integration University (Gimu) has published the results of the III music Festival, held in 2024, and these are the five songs best evaluated by the jury: Serenidade Angolana (Luiana Abrantes, Angola ), , Angolan Ndilale (Sil Norful, Angola), O atabaque é o meu amor (Firmino Lindu mona, Angola), Mãe África (Luiz Nunes, Brazil) and Nô kultura i di nos (Calido Baldé, Guinea Bissau).
The artists Lara Nunes Silva (Brazil), Luan Tavares (Brazil), Galileo Danger (Angola), Victor Badaró (Brazil), Osvaldo sky (Angola) and preto Alto (angola) received honorable mention at the III Festival.
The third edition saw the participation of the Angolan music icon Filipe mukenga, who participated in the event by presenting a song written in collaboration with Jocenilton Santos, receiving the special Prize of the Festival Jury.
“The Festival, in its three editions, has managed to bring together a precious diversity of Brazilian and African artists, styles, talents, lyrics and melodies. As a whole, the musical heritage received by the Festival is quite important and a body which can be analyzed based on different variables, such as musical style, language, country of production. In addition to being able to problematize how,through music and musical language,the project managed to interact with artists and institutions coming from different contexts of the Palop[[Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa]”,reflects the coordinator of Gimu,Ana Claudia de Souza.
All the songs registered for the Gimu Music Festival are available on Playlists. Also check out the group page on Instagram.
Connections between Brazil and Palops through music
Gimu has been developing extension activities since 2016 and has established itself as a space for musical presentation, composition, research and experimentation with the participation of students and the university community with a career related to music. The group tries to strengthen the idea of integration, using music as a language.
The Festival is a music competition for the valorisation of authorial and original music and was created with the aim of strengthening dialogues between Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe on the basis of the music scene produced in these countries and reverberated in the children who study at Unilab. The event promoted musical confluences, bringing together African and Afro-diasporic musicalities, constituting a powerful tool for producing dialogues between Brazilian artists and Palop.
