Filipe Mukenga
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| birth_name = Francisco Felipe da Conceição Gumbe
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|9|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Luanda, Portuguese Angola
(now Angola)
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| occupation = Singer
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| years_active = 1964–present
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Francisco Felipe da Conceição Gumbe,{{cite web|url=https://novojornal.co.ao/cultura/interior/ha-um-certo-distanciamento-entre-a-velha-e-as-novas-geracoes-de-musicos---filipe-mukenga-6642.html|title="Há um certo distanciamento entre a velha e as novas gerações de músicos|last=|first=|publisher=Novo Jornal|date=22 December 2013|access-date=27 August 2024}} known by his artistic name Filipe Mukenga (born 7 September 1949), is an Angolan singer and composer. He is famous for songs such as Humbi humbi, Nvula, and Hailwa Yange Oike Mbela.
Biography
Mukenga was born on 7 September 1949 in Luanda. He was partly raised in Massabi, in Cabinda province. He began performing in the 1960s, inspired by jazz musicians, as well as foreign musicians such as The Beatles and Charles Aznavour. He would also collaborate with various local groups.{{cite web|url=https://www.jornaldeangola.ao/ao/noticias/detalhes.php?id=370357|title=“Quartas Musicais” com Filipe Mukenga|last=|first=|publisher=Jornal de Angola|date=21 December 2016|access-date=27 August 2024}}
His stage name came while performing as part of Duo Misoso with José Agostinho Nvunje, during which time he became interested in languages native to Angola such as Umbundu and Kwanyama. During this time period as well, he became involved with the Youth of MPLA as part of their musical section, and later served on the National Cultural Council, the precursor to the current Ministry of Culture, Tourism and the Environment.{{cite web|url=https://www.buala.org/en/stages/a-new-song-of-the-land|title=A new song of the land|last=Silva|first=Mário Rui|publisher=Buala|date=7 December 2010|access-date=27 August 2024}} His contemporaries during the 1970s and beyond included André Mingas, Filipe Zau, Rui Veloso, and Waldemar Bastos.{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}
With Zau, his longtime musical partner, they won the Common Ground Music Award in 2008, presented by Search for Common Ground. They would later collaborate with the Associação Unidos do Caxinde in "Os Nossos Reis", a song for Luanda's Carnaval celebrations in 2008, and compose the anthem "Angola, país de futuro", prepared for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, with them being accompanied by the band Maravilha.{{Cite web |last=João Armando |date= |title=Filipe Zau: Historiador, Investigador, Professor, Autor de Letras e Músico |url=http://www.opais.net/pt/revista/?id=1639&det=2786&mid |access-date=11 September 2024|publisher=Vida: online}}
He met Brazilian singer Djavan while he was visiting Angola as part of the Kalunga Project, with Mukenga joining Canto Livre de Angola and touring in Brazil. He would later return at multiple points to Brazil and collaborate with artists such as Ney Matogrosso, Zélia Duncan, and Cássia Eller.
Mukenga has also collaborated with artists such as Coréon Dú, with them writing the song Serpente.{{cite web | url=https://www.club-k.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26573:coreon-du-virtuosismo-em-palco-e-maturidade-musical&catid=16&lang=pt&Itemid=1082 | title=Coréon Dú: Virtuosismo em palco e maturidade musical }}{{cite web | url=https://www.geledes.org.br/fusao-do-jazz-com-kuduro-em-the-coreon-experiment/ | title=Fusão do jazz com kuduro em "The Coréon Experiment" | date=26 December 2016 }} He has also collaborated extensively with Underground Sound of Lisbon, such as performing together on the 1998 benefit album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon with the song Hailwa Yange Oike Mbela. The album was created by the AIDS-awareness organization Red Hot Organization to bring awareness to the disease in the Portuguese-speaking world.{{cite web|url=https://redhot.org/project/red-hot-lisbon-onda-sonora/|title=Red Hot + Lisbon: Onda Sonora|last=|first=|publisher=Red Hot Organization|date=|access-date=27 August 2024}} They later collaborated on the song "African Dreams" in 2000.
In 2020, Mukenga participated in a collaboration of 20 Angolan artists to sing the Angolan national anthem Angola Avante, on the 45th anniversary of its official crowning as the anthem. Other artists on the collaboration included Eduardo Paím, Yola Araújo, and Matias Damásio.{{cite web|url=https://www.verangola.net/va/en/062020/Culture/20512/45th-Anniversary-of-National-Independence-anthem-highlights-Angolan-patriotism-and-solidarity.htm|title=45th Anniversary of National Independence anthem highlights Angolan patriotism and solidarity|last=Costa|first=Tatiana|publisher=Ver Angola|date=19 June 2020|access-date=27 August 2024}}
Mukenga had lived in Lisbon, Portugal from 1992 to 2004, when he returned to Angola.
Discography
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- 1998 - Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (with Underground Sound of Lisbon)
- 1999 - African Dreams - Underground Sound of Lisbon
- 2005 - Collaboration with Maurício Mattar
- 2007 - Sons da Fala
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Category:Musicians from Luanda
Category:People from Cabinda Province
Category:Angolan expatriates in Portugal