Karin Mensah, the Glossary
Karin Mensah (born 1965) is a classically trained singer from Cape Verde, whose preferred genre is jazz and traditional music from West Africa.[1]
Table of Contents
23 relations: Blues, Canale 5, Cape Verde, Chanson, Dakar, Funk, Jazz, Latin music, Lelio Luttazzi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Morna (music), Mumbai, Music theory, Orff Schulwerk, Padua, Paris Nanterre University, Rita Orlandi-Malaspina, Riva del Garda, Salzburg, Senegal, Verona, Wolof language, World Food Programme.
- 20th-century Senegalese women singers
- 21st-century Cape Verdean women singers
- Cape Verdean women writers
- Musicians from Dakar
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian free-to-air television channel of Mediaset, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope.
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.
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Chanson
A chanson (chanson française) is generally any lyric-driven French song.
Dakar
Dakar (Ndakaaru) is the capital and largest city of Senegal.
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Latin music
Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese.
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Lelio Luttazzi
Lelio Luttazzi (27 April 1923 – 8 July 2010) was an Italian composer, musician, actor, singer, conductor, writer, and television and radio presenter.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Morna (music)
The morna (pronunciation in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole) is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Music theory
Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.
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Orff Schulwerk
The Orff Schulwerk, or simply the Orff Approach, is a developmental approach used in music education.
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Padua
Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.
Paris Nanterre University
Paris Nanterre University (French: Université Paris Nanterre), formerly Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Paris, France.
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Rita Orlandi-Malaspina
Rita Orlandi-Malaspina (28 December 1937 – 8 April 2017) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a major international career from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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Riva del Garda
Riva del Garda (Rìva in local dialect) is a town and comune in the northern Italian province of Trento of the Trentino Alto Adige region.
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Salzburg
Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria.
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
Verona
Verona (Verona or Veròna) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.
Wolof language
Wolof (Wolof làkk, وࣷلࣷفْ لࣵکّ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by the Wolof people in much of West African subregion of Senegambia that is split between the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia.
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World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide.
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See also
20th-century Senegalese women singers
- Coumba Gawlo
- Julia Sarr
- Karin Mensah
- Viviane Ndour
21st-century Cape Verdean women singers
- Ana Firmino
- Belinda Lima
- Carmen Souza
- Cesária Évora
- Elida Almeida
- Fantcha
- Gardénia Benrós
- Jenifer Solidade
- Jennifer Dias
- Karin Mensah
- Maria Alice
- Maria de Barros
- Mayra Andrade
- Nácia Gomes
- Nancy Vieira
- Suzanna Lubrano
Cape Verdean women writers
- Claire Andrade-Watkins
- Dina Salústio
- Eileen Barbosa
- Ivone Ramos
- Karin Mensah
- Orlanda Amarílis
- Preta Fernanda
- Vera Duarte
- Yara dos Santos
- Yolanda Morazzo
Musicians from Dakar
- Abel Maxwell
- Akon
- Baaba Maal
- Boy Gé Mendes
- Coumba Gawlo
- Diarra Sylla
- Didier Awadi
- Diogal
- Doudou N'Diaye Rose
- Florentine Mulsant
- Freeze Corleone
- Issa (Senegalese singer)
- Issa Cissokho
- Julia Sarr
- Karim Ouellet
- Karin Mensah
- Laba Sosseh
- Lemzo Diamono
- MC Solaar
- Manu Lima
- Maria de Barros
- Mola Sylla
- Omar Pene
- Positive Black Soul
- Soriba Kouyaté
- Tété
- Thione Seck
- Tom Frager
- Wasis Diop
- Ycare