Waldemar Bastos | en

Waldermar Bastos (born 1954, M'banza, Zaire province, Angola) is an Angolan musician who combines Afropop, Portuguese (fado), and Brazilian influences. His parents were both nurses. He started singing at a very early age. At the age of 28 he emigrated to Portugal to escape the civil war between the Marxist MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola regime and the Western-backed UNITA National Union for Total Independence of Angola. Quotes from the artist "One day, my father arrived home and found me playing his concertina. I felt bad for having been caught touching, without permission, an instrument which was...

Waldemar Matuška ['valdɛmar 'matʊʃka] (July 2, 1932 - May 30, 2009) was a Czech singer who became popular in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986, he emigrated to the United States. Since the Velvet Revolution he has lived in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Waldemar Matuška was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia, and spent his whole childhood in Prague. His mother was a singer in the Vienna operetta theatres. He worked as a glassmaker and performed on various musical instruments with many different bands. In 1960 he recorded his first song Suvenýr (Souvenir). Later he became an actor in the theatre Semafor. On...