Education
He was a member of the band Colá in 1976, but then went to Portugal where he studied with Fernando Lopes Graça and later to France to pursue his musical education with Henri-Claude Fantapié.
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Vasco Martins
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Born in Queluz, Portugal, in 1956, he lives now in Calhau, Cape Verde. In the Cape Verdean musical panorama, Vasco Martins may be considered unique. Self-taught, he began his studies in 1974.
In 1979 he recorded his first LP. He returned to Cape Verde, and it is there that he has created most of his work as a composer and instrumentist, but also as musicologist and producer, he organized and founded the Baía das Gatas Music Festival along with his friends in 1984, the first music festival in the nation.
His album Lua água clara (Clear Moon Water), a Civil Defense was recorded in Paris in 2008. 2004: 2001: 9, for orchestra Other works.
