Mario Lucio & The Pan African Band

• country:Cape Verde
• label:Maremusica
• type:Band
• artist contact:Ao Sul Do Mundo

Line up

• Jery Bidan (Guitar Player)
• Mario Lucio (Main Artist, Voice, Guitar)
• Ricardo Campos (Bass Player)
• Rogério Pitomba (Drummer)

Links

• MARIO LUCIO INDEPENDANCE OFFICIAL VIDEO
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Website

MARIO LUCIO is one of the most recognizable figures of Cape Verde as a musician, a singer-songwriter, and one of the country’s foremost and leading composers of all time. An internationally acclaimed writer and author of "Manifesto a Criolização”, the most current work on the phenomenon of Creolization in the world.

Singer, guitarist, composer, poet, writer, thinker and even former Minister of Culture: Mario Lucio is all these things and more for Cape Verdeans. A champion of creolization, the artist's work is a sensitive and passionate tribute to the cross-fertilization that has shaped his country's culture.

Mario Lucio’s signature songs and arrangements are found in an array of albums and songs most of which were interpreted and recorded by the late Cesária Évora and country’s emerging and established singers as well as artists as far afield as Brazil, France and Italy.

50 years after the independence of Cape Verde and the other ex-Portuguese colonies, Mario Lucio releases an album, ‘Independance’, celebrating this great moment of change in Lusophone Africa.

The title of his seventh opus, ‘Independance’, includes “dance”, a play on words referring to the return of previously forbidden folk dances and the opening up of the country to dance music from Angola, Congo, Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal…

A resolutely festive album, in which Mario takes pleasure in recalling that era of his childhood, filled with joy and music.