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so there is a field amongst them, and they said that voting is the only way to express what they want to say. and that's it from the other hosting for now. don't go away. next up, doc failed, installs cape verde is genre of mon, full music and dance known as us up to a short break out. there was in berlin for me. on the new scene, i saw the stage burst into our is whenever they feel like it sounds kind of for design of fashion and most abusive in the sky is many on including the office, the bible. how do they do it? the secret lives of size starts may 22nd on d, w. the
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an archipelago in the middle of the atlantic cape bird. residents of these craggy volcanic mountains looked out over an endless expanse of c, the . in contrast to the rugged landscape, the special sound of cape bird music is luxury and soulful and melancholy. the best the knowing in the 15th century, portuguese sailors discovered the uninhabited archipelago. under the mostly barren volcanic islands are fringed with endless speeches, fishing, agriculture,
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and tourism. are the main sources of income for the cape verde and the deals and li shaking things up around here. that's new though. the drummer, it's only 4 weeks to carnival, a beloved cape verde and tradition. it's the most important date in the countries calendar. nuno has 2 things to take care of before that building drums and finding more drummers for the carnival parade. the sports field is a wash with new talent, not just athletic, but musical to take 12 year old jobs on most of the the 1st. yep. this years,
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this 1st time, he's never played as a carnival before. he doesn't know how to do it yet. we're doing basic training here. but since i'm nervous, i've got these bumps ready. i've never done this before, and i don't want to do anything wrong. the an independent african country cape virgin islands are located some 600 kilometers west of synagogue in the atlantic ocean. 9 of the islands are inhabited. there are also smaller uninhabited islands. santa and tell is the greenest and perhaps the most beautiful of the cape virgin islands and serves as the islanders fruit and
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vegetable garden. the sugarcane flowers is here. a long side coconuts. bananas, pi a. of the bread, fruit, trees, and of a cono's. coffee beans grow on the mountain slopes below. the less for tile island of selby sent a is kept well stocked with fruit and vegetables. thanks to its neighbour its capital. i'm in dello is home to the largest port in cape bird, and it's a meeting point of a globe trotting sailors. the keep for it is not a prosperous country. it lacks industry and natural resources,
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but it does have a homegrown treasure, a special genre of music, known as more now. the saudi is a young musician. she's actually studying law, like a friend of mirrors. yeah. but music is her passion. she takes the bus down to the beach to compose a new, more, not in a style, jake melancholic, life affirming music of cape bird. the saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape virtual life with their songs and to earn some money in the process. just like her role model, she's aria able to made cape birds. more noise indicate for to famous the world over a central theme is so dodgy, the pain of leaving cape bird and the longing for home. cape bird has long been a country of emigration.
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the like many here because out here is catholic and deeply religious legacy of the islands. portuguese colonizers, the this is anya, able to is buried in them in yellow cemetery to this day. she's a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like cloutier hope for a better future. many of their songs address the cape verde in dilemma to stay and suffer or leave and long for home. others are about love, poverty or more to base on the local, pre owned word for hospitality. somebody
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takes inspiration from cape foods stunning natural landscapes. the newest song celebrates monte carter. the mountain with the face of fame has been dealt with and marks the the sooner she will be performing this new song. for the 1st time, the close to the beach, human dello, the capital of savvy sent to the sea seems close enough to touch
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the . there is an abundance of fish and cape bird, but house is outside. the capital are not connected to the water supply system. all the water comes from a single d, certainly nation plant. if you're not connected to its pipes, the canister is your only option. the at the highest point of the island, miguel antonio has been especially creative the . he's worked out how to procure the precious water. he needs for irrigating his
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garden on the cliff. he fishes it out of the clouds, the books, a blueprint that you don't get. the reset me here in this net, the washer condenses during the night is thinking in the contest. i mean, the, the gwinnett gets west at night, the more you and the washer or is it the bronze diet deeper then flows into the cistern. this is the sister and where me go collect water vital both for himself and his garden every
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night, 50 to 60 leaders of water accumulate here. think that this i could do that will hold 4000 liters. a lot grows on his for child 100 square meter plot, then we carrots, aniseed central. now let's is rosemary and others. is he happy with his live? is it? yes, very happy with. can see the garden and the water or his livelihood along the road. just above his garden, he keeps a small stand. here he transforms his curves into tea and shops and sells them to locals and tourists. the rest he keeps for himself
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from the spectacular cliff top garden begin, antonio has a magnificent view of the islands capital min dello the on the neighboring island dose on to on tow. a piece of sugar cane from the roadside is a popular snack on the way home from school. there was a school bus for the pupils who live further away. pupils like new jersey, the 16 year old jews era labors with their brand mother, uncle, and, and their children in one of a small mountain villages. her father is not present, which isn't uncommon in cape bird, and her mother is also absent. the
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money is tight, the legal minimum wage is about $130.00 heroes per month to 0 must also contribute to the family income after school. she earns extra money with donkey deliveries. spectacular as the landscape is. it's not easy to navigate. many journeys are only possible by donkey and many people also rely on donkeys for the crucial resource of water. pipes are often out of service and some areas are not connected to the water supply system at all. l ton has 3 donkeys which you rinse out to school girls like jew 0 when he doesn't need them himself. it will take choose era and the donkey an hour and a half in the scorching heat, to transport this heavy canister to a house high up on the mountain, the
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samples, tons of consent, parts done. so there are many elderly people living in the houses here and there isn't enough water and the pipe supply isn't reliable. so we have to load the water onto the donkeys and we also bring them their groceries from me. so for the, for this company to 0 will learn about to euro from elton for the strenuous time she's expected on the mountain top, who doesn't have to take the water to the house up there. so i always do it when i come home from school, he simply get some money for it. for a lot you do, you got me just c h to the it's a difficult journey with
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a stubborn donkey for the place itself is special. the news that of the news is this. it's beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain. super to the same gun with feel isn't noise. you can only see it from up here. the one that was the, the, the made it, the mario suicide lives here with his family. its 5 kilometers by foot to the newest village guy. because the, the, the,
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the passport who i'm looking for don't keys are vital for survival. yeah. there's a transportation for the we to have no water without the donkeys. you know, the level of loose could cut the case. but we'd also be missing each other by 6 moves, exit, materials, cement and stones, et cetera. everything new who who, who will suck some in. lots of you don't key so important. look or simply 50 times to envelope the fruit and vegetables supplied by sun to one child to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey. in the market hall mean dello, cloudy, and her friend museums are shopping
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they want to cook cape birds, national dish coupon. so with that you could also put a meet filling in it. so we have everything for the got you. yes. is the current in the bag, the right one for catch you bob? thank you. the, the traditional recipe includes both meat and fish, the
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they take the bus home storms. do we cut it into pieces or wash it 1st? the main ingredients, epcot coupon our corn, beans, vegetables, meat, and fish. the hardy su simmers for hours on a medium heat. once cooked, the traditional dishes, reheated and eaten over several days cut out he now lives in one of the most expensive neighborhoods. viewed the beach
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cheese a dentist and a huge fan of carnival. this year, a very special challenge lies ahead. for the 1st time, she's a carnival queen in carnival, the queen's dress plays a central role. it has to be unusual, respect to traditions, and have a scene all send me to them in the carnival is fun, but it's also culture and traditions that i'm interested in social equality. having a balance between the winners and losers, best this dresses, catalina's design. it requires a lot of fabric and much like the responsibility of being queen its weight. my dress has a metal base. the costume represents the balance between rich and poor,
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colossal. but it also has to be a big, sexy yes, of course. there's this part open with pearls, the more beautiful the dress, the better, the posit dentist contract, tina earns good money. the dress will cost around $300.00 euros. being a queen requires a lot of investment. dina as a sewing studio and one of the poorer districts of the city, it's also cloudy as neighborhood far from the beach closer to the mountains for weeks before kind of of it's all systems go here. dina enters,
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seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. teen is stressed. most carnival costumes are fairly standard, so they don't cost much the queen stress is a big exception. and so the stress is a job for the boss. that's dina. and this is how it should look the yeah know, put into the into the truck. can it be done in time for carnival or? yes, yes. as hard or easy. hard. does it look queenly? this is too much. do you see see yes.
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yes. the um, the the circumference of the extravagant dress is recorded on the floor. dina isn't thrilled. she's under a lot of time pressure. every one is relaxed except her sees. it's always the same because everything comes at the last moment just before a carnival. and i only have 4 weeks the 3 weeks later, there's not much to show yet. first they try out a model. an employee serves as a substitute queen the
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will there be enough time before carnival. more or less the time is running out for new though to use red suit and matching red hat still have to be made for carnival. the band leaders outfit society a able to is on the present in new knows workshop. there was no money for drums or costumes. they create everything themselves, including the music,
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and kill those he lived there. they'll go with you. i've come up with my very own risk for the carnival dello, i should, i may do both. it's a kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses as you live up to you to keep me in the cheese. we'll jump out of here and luck. i saw the movie brushing visit. see right, and i used to s e c. the right next to this is adrea everett. a cemetery is guitar maker on his set. those
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workshop more not the music of cape bird also serves as the collective memory of the cape verde ends its central theme. so daddy expresses the melancholy and yearning for home so by those who had to leave their country due to poverty before the 1st performance of her new morning songs cloutier wants to give her old guitar an overall on the set of the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument, you need to re okay, buddy and guitar. it's very, we have the best ones here. i'll show you on that most desirable defense classic this winter when you thought
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somebody else, may i try one, a cloudy, i can't afford and a settled guitars, but there's no harm dreaming activity back of the page or do i have of what i think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for so do you agree? i don't and thank you one for my kind of music. one of your guitars would be great. the for a brief time, she gets to hold a really good instrument. it costs around $600.00 curos far too expensive for cloud? yeah. she'll be sticking with the old guitar for now. the
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new place has somewhat harder, faster with them about to cut us are the drums sections of the carnival parades. they were key part of kate, 30 and musical culture mean dello, the 2nd largest city and cape bird is the cultural center of the archipelago. the new nose drummers are rehearsing on the soccer field as they do every evening before carnival josh on the line of some $150.00 drummers will come together for the event. the neighbors can forget about sleep during these weeks, but most of them are taking part any way,
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either as musicians or dancers every evening and there is rehearsal the noodle is you for it. we were the 1st group to start rehearsing. at this point, i'd say, we'll be ready for the what looks like and i do like the beach was one so place of hard for some 3 centuries. the speech was the side of one of the world's largest slave markets. the under portuguese colonial rule,
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thousands of africans were chained to this pillar before being sold onto the americas and the caribbean. 2 days, the dungy valia, the former capital is a world heritage site. after centuries of portuguese colonial rule, cape bird finally became independent in 1975. the the country's modern day capital is about 15 kilometers away. it's called prya,
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which means beach, like the old capital. it's located on the cape birds, largest style and the sun to jago, the 70 percent of cape birds population. the creole descendants of both and sleep africans, and the portuguese colonizers. the cape bird. creole language developed from the communication between slaves, engines slavers, both portuguese and creole are still spoken in cape for today. around 20 kilometers from the capitalize the tranquil town. oh, so domingos keywords where past clause lives. he's the last cape verde and who can still build and play the traditional instrument of being slaved, the symbol. it's base is a hollowed out gord. it seems to me to see more meaningful magazines, as in boy is the oldest string instruments and kate,
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but it goes back centuries and has neither european nor american origins. it has to have come from the african continent and is mentioned in slave accounts from the time all these graphs, photos, each valve cover band, mostly along the exact yeah, this happened is now with a group of slides flipped to the mountains. they would dump the bad guys above plus, plus a in nature. they found the materials they needed to build an instrument, then you won't buy it for you being so you can remember lives a month or yep. be the to keep them so simple. a replica was created, so the 1st and k, the to month to you o, as in boy e d,
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the last uh 3 is e as in most of the and this box, the beginnings of the 1st, specifically k for the music shown right? cold the but to go there are still goats in the mountains today, just like back then pasco needs their skin for the sound box. the animals can't be too young or too old. the the next part is more difficult. course tail, hair, the bow and the strings are made from it says, you know, i saw a time,
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not here. feet literally and here the one for them was a few minutes. so this is the for now the instrument can already be given a rough tunic, one side of the saloon that i see. so it's important to basketball, that distribution be kept alive. and with a, the memory of slavery, the bank and so be sent. it's nadia is also working to keep the keep dirty and musical traditional live to her next performance date is approaching. she's excited, but it's difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. saudi's thoughts straight from her studies to her new compositions and the
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performance. music is a refuge. her father left when she was very young. i mean your feet, the look of us you my nice never been easy was use explain part of my life for as long as i can remember, if i was singing along to the radio when i was to and my mother got me a guitar when i was for basketball. sadie a couple of the leaves this area, a bar i showed people morning music and made it big. ella x and brought cape 3rd to the attention of the world. see me yelling me and he was indeed of my job as a young woman living here today. i see that many other young people aren't listening to music anymore. i think it comes with. yeah, this is not even showing the got a model, the music starting to disappear, to cool movies. you get stuck with you. dropping it back for my part i dentist,
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i was more. no, i can't allow us to lose our roots. uh it gives us. that's why i sing more. no more . you need them feel comfortable. it's difficult to make a living for music. things are extremely expensive. a square the social is got us. take the price of a loaf of bread recently and shut up from $150.00 to $250.00. your school does the equivalent of around 2 euros 50. a whole loaf of bread is often too expensive to buy. hello. do you have some cookies or conflicts? yes, sure. or anything else t a fucking. thank you. cloudy and make sure to leave some cut troup of her mother to eat when she gets
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home late in the evening from her job as an accountant cody is mother doesn't earn much. and most of it goes towards her only daughter's tuition fees about a 130 years each month. it's a constant battle with my mother. she keeps telling me musics, no good, my child. and i tell her, yes, it is. use it as a part of me and then she'll say cloud, you go and study cape virgin, use like one, pay your way it'll do you know, good of the blue scarfs there. done. have you forgotten anything? it's already 9 15 pm
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on the evening of the 1st performance with the new songs it's about to begin the the key will earn her around 30 years. but it's true worth is greater solid use songs are helping to keep keep birdie and music alive the that song she wrote on the beach about the mountain with the face. now it's live on the concert stage. the
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catalina 2 is preparing, or rather be prepared to be queen the this year's queen's dress has been kept secret from the public until the last moment the the catalina is nervous. people are already gathering outside for the carnival. under queen stress isn't ready yet.
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the dina is at the end of her rope. and catalina too, needs all her strength right now. first get into the dress, but how the it's a bit difficult to stress. difficult to get into meeting. but what dean is conjured up in the last 4 weeks is truly spectacular. the last few weeks of taking their told i'm dina, the very, very, very tired. i haven't slept for 24 hours. i've worked non stop. no, not 2430 or so.
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it turned out beautifully. her parents are here too, and they're so proud the but the biggest challenge is yet to come. how to get up there onto the carnival float. with the help of a construction because they head up, but it's not very stable. up. she goes it's shaky, needs to be where they get there. the
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the queens in her place, high above the people just as she should be. down below there is during the now we can begin carnival the highlight of the year in cape 3rd. the
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of the different part of the parade for new know, it's the culmination of months of preparation. these red hat and
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suit somehow got made ready just in time. the but he doesn't seem entirely satisfied the, even the sound of his whistle can be heard and the deafening gain attention. you have to watch me the somewhere in the middle of it all is just on the soccer player. barely recognizable under all the make up. his 1st carnival. and this is very saw there and some
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3 things you need in life health, money and to love. the parade only lasts for one day for one glorious night. but they've been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. it's the music that brings every one together, the fashion for big stars made in mckinney and slam of keep it up against all odd david . a veto has chased down his dream to this is a phone call. we need to make this time for you to become somebody like now, the big time designer is encouraging people from the better to follow their dreams . do logo us in 30 minutes on the w
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