Angolan folk and semba singer and songwriter
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Bonga Kwenda, better known as Bonga, is a singer and songwriter from Angola. Born in 1943 in the province of Bengo, and left Angola at age 23 to become an athlete, becoming the Angolan record holder for the 400 metre dash. He had already begun his singing career at age 15. Bonga abandoned athletics in 1972, concentrating solely on his music. He has released over 30 albums, singing in Portuguese and traditional Angolan languages. His tracks are a mixture of Portuguese-language folk songs, semba,
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5 total works indexed
· 1997 · cited 3,403x
· 2020 · cited 345x
· 1999 · cited 294x
· 2022 · cited 274x
· 2017 · cited 241x
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