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Ladies and Gentlemen, we now present to you Afro-Kizz Me...Giving you the best music in Kizomba, Urban Kiz, Semba, Afro house and Kuduro. We started our first social on October 1st 2015.
AFRO-Kizz Me brings varieties of the BEST instructors (for Kizomba , Urban Kiz, Semba, Kuduro & Afro-House) Internationally (France, Spain, USA, Portugal etc) and Locally (within Canada)
HISTORY & ORIGIN OF KIZOMBA
Kizomba – Dance
Kizomba is an evolution of the traditional dances of Angola semba, however, it is evident that kizomba dance as we know it today evolved after the vogue of kizomba music. Since the 1950s, Angolan people used to dance semba. In the 1990s, when the actual kizomba music got more and more popular, Angolan semba dancers started to adapt their semba steps according to the tempo and flavour of the Kizomba beats.
At the beginning of its development, Africans were dancing semba, and other dances at a slower tempo according to the beat of the Kizomba music. Technically speaking, semba danced romantically to Kizomba music is the basis of the Kizomba dance.
Kizomba – Music
Kizomba music was born in Angola in the late 1970s beginning of the 1980s, evolving from traditional semba. On this basis, Kizomba music emerged as a more modern music genre with a sensual touch mixed with African rhythm. Unlike Semba, Kizomba music is characterised by a slower and usually very romantic rhythm. Given that Angola is a former Portuguese colony, Portuguese is the principal language spoken in Angola and thus, also most Kizomba songs are sung in Portuguese. However, early Kizomba songs were sung in Kimbundu and in other national languages of Angola.
Urban Kiz – Dance
Urban Kiz (Kizomba's influence in Urban Music) is a new style that has become extremely popular in the international scene. It has been called evolution, new-style, urban, modern, etc. It is characterized by more linear movement, more frequent syncopation and breaks, and an upright stance.
Urban Kiz – Music
This style is danced to more electronic music, including ghetto zouk and remixes of pop, hip-hop, RnB, dubstep, electronic, techno, jazz, house music etc. Also, due to the popularity of Kizomba Music & Dance, your favorite urban and contemporary songs are now re-mixed and/or backed with Kizomba beats
Kuduro
Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance originally developed in Angola in the 1980s. It is characterized as uptempo and energetic. Kuduro began in Luanda, Angola in the late 1980s. Initially, producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk from the Caribbean, and also semba from Angola and laid this around a fast 4/4 beat.The kuduro is similar to the Kizomba rhythm. The lyrics are usually in Portuguese.
Afrobeats Music
Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Nigerian music, Ghanaian music, jazz, highlife, funk, and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. It was named by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who is responsible for the creation of the style and spreading the genre outside of Nigeria. Afrobeat, which is currently seen as the most popular form of music in Nigeria, Ghana. Afrobeat features chants, call-and-response vocals, and complex, interacting rhythms.
Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and poly-rhythms.
SOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizomba
http://www.kizombamania.hu/kizomba-history/
http://www.maiskizomba.com/en/kizomba
http://www.kizombacommunity.com/what-is-kizomba/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuduro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrobeat
