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style=\"color:#123758;font-size:15px\" > Palco Cerca<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"qodef-icon-list-item\">\n    <div class=\"qodef-icon-list-icon-holder\" style=\"padding-right:12px\">\n        <div class=\"qodef-icon-list-icon-holder-inner clearfix\">\n\t\t\t<i class=\"qodef-icon-simple-line-icon icon-calender \" style=\"color:#df091a;font-size:21px\"><\/i>        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"qodef-icon-list-text\" style=\"color:#123758;font-size:15px\" > 27 JUN<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"qodef-icon-list-item\">\n    <div class=\"qodef-icon-list-icon-holder\" style=\"padding-right:12px\">\n        <div class=\"qodef-icon-list-icon-holder-inner clearfix\">\n\t\t\t<i class=\"qodef-icon-simple-line-icon icon-clock 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As suas can\u00e7\u00f5es ecoavam no cora\u00e7\u00e3o de quem sonhava o fim da coloniza\u00e7\u00e3o e o nascimento de uma identidade pr\u00f3pria. Cantava o semba quando este j\u00e1 era uma forma de resist\u00eancia: ritmo mesti\u00e7o, raiz afro-lus\u00f3fona, corpo e palavra em movimento. Num tempo em que a m\u00fasica era tamb\u00e9m arma e ref\u00fagio, Bonga ergueu a voz como s\u00edmbolo de unidade e liberta\u00e7\u00e3o. Foi perseguido, exilado, mas nunca silenciado. O seu canto correu de Luanda a Lisboa e da\u00ed ao mundo, levando a mem\u00f3ria de um povo.<\/p>\n<p>Nascido Jos\u00e9 Adelino Barcel\u00f3 de Carvalho, em Kipiri, nos arredores de Catumbela, em 1942, Bonga cresceu entre os batuques de Angola e os discos que chegavam do outro lado do Atl\u00e2ntico. Antes de ser m\u00fasico, foi atleta de alta competi\u00e7\u00e3o e chegou a representar Portugal nos 400 metros. Mas quando o vento da mudan\u00e7a come\u00e7ou a soprar em \u00c1frica, trocou o nome de corredor pelo nome de mensageiro: Bonga Kuenda. Ou seja, \u201caquele que atravessa fronteiras a correr\u201d. A partir da\u00ed, correu, sim, mas atr\u00e1s da liberdade. Bonga partiu para Holanda, para Fran\u00e7a, para o ex\u00edlio que tantos conheceram e poucos souberam transformar em obra.<\/p>\n<p>Instalado na Europa nos anos 70, Bonga tornou-se voz-chave da di\u00e1spora angolana. O seu \u00e1lbum de estreia, <em>Angola 72<\/em>, fundiu guitarras ac\u00fasticas e reco-recos, saxofone e melancolia, e deu ao semba um novo horizonte: urbano, po\u00e9tico, universal. Influenciado por Liceu Vieira Dias, Rui Mingas, pela morna e pelo fado, reinventou o semba como linguagem h\u00edbrida, entre o lamento e o convite \u00e0 dan\u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p>Ao longo de mais de cinco d\u00e9cadas, construiu uma obra que \u00e9 tamb\u00e9m um arquivo: das influ\u00eancias do batuque e da rebita ao di\u00e1logo com o jazz e com a m\u00fasica cabo-verdiana, da l\u00edngua kimbundu, que insiste em cantar. Nas suas can\u00e7\u00f5es moram hist\u00f3rias de pescadores, de mulheres que esperam, de crian\u00e7as que crescem depressa demais, de um continente que o Ocidente teima em n\u00e3o ouvir com a devida aten\u00e7\u00e3o. A voz de Bonga \u00e9 inconfund\u00edvel: rouca, terrosa, quase ancestral. 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