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thumb Fantcha (born Francelina Durão Almeida on October 14, 1956) is a Cape Verdean singer.
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Fantcha was born as Francelina Durão Almeida in Mindelo on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde. She grew up singing in a musically rich household.[1] From the earliest age, she loved to sing. Instead of playing with dolls or hopscotch with her little girlfriends, her biggest pleasure was to sing with her two brothers who enjoyed playing guitar and cavaquinho at home. When she was around 10, Fantcha joined the Flores do Mindelo carnival company. Like in Brazil, carnival is one of the most important so
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- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Almeida
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Cape Verde
- Place of birth
- Mindelo
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- morna
- Instrument
- voice
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- Fantcha.jpeg
- Residence
- São Vicente
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- date of birth
- 1965-10-15
- birth name
- Francelina Durão Almeida
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thumb Fantcha (born Francelina Durão Almeida on October 14, 1956) is a Cape Verdean singer.
==Biography== Fantcha was born as Francelina Durão Almeida in chã De Alecrim on São Vicente Island, Cape Verde. She grew up singing in a musically rich household. From the earliest age, she loved to sing. Instead of playing with dolls or hopscotch with her little girlfriends, her biggest pleasure was to sing with her two brothers who enjoyed playing guitar and cavaquinho at home.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fantcha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.