An archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Cape bird. Residents of these craggy volcanic mountains looked out over an endless expanse of c, the in contrast to the rugged landscape. The special sound of cape for music is luxury of soulful and melancholy, that the best number to make is the name. In the 15th century, portuguese sailors discovered the uninhabited archipelago. Under the mostly barren volcanic islands are fringed with endless speeches, fishing, agriculture, and tourism. Are the main sources of income for the cape verde and the deals and the shaking things up around here. Thats new though, the drummer, its only 4 weeks to carnival, a beloved cape verde and tradition. Its the most important date in the countries calendar. Nuno has 2 things to take care of before that. Building drums and finding more drummers for the carnival parade. The sports field is a wash with new challenge, not just athletic, but musical to take 12 year old jobs on most of the of the 1st year this year says 1st time hes never played as a carnival before. He doesnt know how to do it yet. Were doing basic training here but since im novice, ive got goosebumps already. Ive never done this before, and i dont want to do anything wrong. The, an independent african country cape Virgin Islands are located some 600 kilometers west of synagogue in the atlantic ocean. 9 of the islands are inhabited, there are also smaller uninhabited islands. Santa and tell is the greenest and perhaps the most beautiful of the cape Virgin Islands and serves as the islanders fruit and vegetable garden. The sugarcane flowers has here alongside coconuts, bananas, pye, a bread, fruit, trees, and of a condos. The coffee beans grow on the mountain slopes below. The less for tile island of selby sent a is kept well stocked with fruit and vegetables. Thanks to its neighbour. Its capital, im in dello is home to the largest port in cape bird, and its a Meeting Point for a globe trotting sailors. The keep for it is not a prosperous country. It lacks industry and natural resources, but it does have a homegrown treasure, especially genre of music, known as more now the saudi is a young musician. Shes actually studying law, like a friend of mirrors. Yeah. But music is her passion. She takes the bus down to the beach to compose a new, more now than the style, jake, melancholic, life affirming music of k bird. The saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape verde to live with their songs and to earn some money in the process. Just like her role model. Shes aria able to made cape birds, more noise indicate for to famous the world over a central theme is so dodging the pain of leaving a bird and the longing for home cheap bird has long been a country of emigration. The like many here because out here is catholic and deeply religious legacy of the islands. Portuguese colonizers, the this is anya, able to is buried in them in yellow cemetery to this day. Shes a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like cloutier hope for a better future. Many of their songs address the cape verde and dilemma to stay and suffer or leave and long for home. Others are about love, poverty or more to base. The local, pre owned word for hospitality. Somebody takes inspiration from cape fluids, stunning natural landscapes. The or newest song celebrates monte carter. The mountain with the face of fame has been dealt with landmarks the the sooner she will be performing this new song. For the 1st time, the close to the beach human dello, the capital of so be sent to the sea, seems close enough to touch the. There is an abundance of fish and cape bird, but house is outside the capital are not connected to the water supply system. All the water comes from a single to say, live nation plant. If youre not connected to its pipes, the canister is your only option. The, at the highest point of the island, Miguel Antonio has been especially creative the hes worked out how to procure the precious water he needs for irrigating his garden, on the cliff. He fishes it out of the clouds, the books. This meant that you dont get the reset me here in this net. The washer condenses during the night is think of it. Because it, because this, i mean the, the gwinnett gets west at night. The more you and the washer or is it the bronze diamond duper and then flows into the cistern. This is the cistern where me go collect water vital both for himself and his garden every night 50 to 60 leaders of water accumulate here. Think that this i could do that will hold 4000 liters. A lot. Grows on his for tie. 100 square meter plot. Been with carrots, aniseed central. Now lets is rosemary and others. Is he happy with his live . Is it . Yes, very happy i was going to see if i lived in the garden and the water or his livelihood along the road just above his garden. He keeps a small stand here. He transforms his curves into t n. Shops and sells them to locals and tourist the rest he keeps for himself. From his spectacular cliff top garden begin antonio as a magnificent view of the islands capital min dello the on the neighboring island dose on one toe. A piece of sugarcane from the roadside is a popular snack on the way home from school. The theres a school bus for the pupils who live further away. Pupils like new jersey, the 16 year old jews era labels with their brand, mother, uncle, and, and their children in one of the small mountain villages. Her father is not present, which isnt uncommon in cape bird. And her mother is also absent. The money is tight, the legal minimum wage is about 130. 00 heroes per month to 0 must also contribute to the Family Income after school. She earns extra money with donkey deliveries. Spectacular as the landscape is. Its not easy to navigate. Many journeys are only possible by donkey and many people also rely on donkeys for the crucial resource of water. Pipes are often out of service and some areas are not connected to the water supply system at all. L ton has 3 donkeys which you rinse out to school girls legs you 0 when he doesnt need them himself. It will take choose era and the donkey an hour and a half in the scorching heat, to transport this heavy canister to a house high up on the mountain, the seeing boost tons of consent, parts done. So there are many elderly People Living in the houses here and there isnt enough water and the pipe supply isnt reliable. So we have to load the water on to the donkeys and we also bring them their groceries from me. So for the 1st company to 0 will earn about to euro from elton for the strenuous time shes expected on the mountain top, who doesnt have to take the water to the house up there. So i always do it. When i come home from school, he simply fargo, i get some money for it for a lot of use. Do you want me just c h to the its a difficult journey with a stubborn donkey. Put the place itself a special the the new data beneath is this. Its beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain. Super to create the same gun with feel isnt noise. You can only see it from up here. The bush when the cause you as a, the, the, made it the barrios whos lives here with his family. Its 5 kilometers by foot to the newest village guy because the, the, the expert who, who im looking for dont keys vital for survival. Yeah. Theres a transportation for the we to have no water without the donkeys. You know, the level of loose could cut the case, but wed also be missing each other by 6 to move effects of materials, cement and stones, et cetera. Everything new who, who is in flux meant like to do a good donkey. So important look or so it was if we dont eat the fruit and vegetable supplied by sun to entitled to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey in the market hall that mean dello, cloudy, and a friend, museum, or shopping. They want to cook. Cape birds, National Dish coupon. So with the shape you could also put in each filling in it. So we have everything for that. Got you . Yes. Is the corn in the bag the right one for catch you. Thank you. The, the traditional recipe includes both meat and fish, the they take the bus home the storms. Do we cut it into pieces or wash at 1st the main ingredients of got coupon our corn, beans, vegetables, meat, and fish. The hardy su simmers for hours on a medium heat. Once cooked the traditional dishes, reheated and eaten over several days cut out he now lives in one of the most expensive neighborhoods view, the beach cheese, a dentist, and a huge fan of carnival. This year, a very special challenge lies ahead. For the 1st time shes a carnival queen in carnival. The queens dress plays a central role. It has to be unusual, respect to traditions and have a scene all send me to them in the carnival is fun. But its also culture and traditions that im interested in social equality. Having a balance between the winners and losers, best this dresses, catalinas design. It requires a lot of fabric. And much like the responsibility of being queen its weight. My dress has a metal base. The costume represents the balance between rich and poor. But it also has to be a big, sexy yes, of course. There is this part. Open with pearls. The more beautiful the dress, the better, the deposit dentist contract. Tina earns good money. The dress will cost around 300. 00 euros. Being a queen requires a lot of investment. Dina has a sewing studio and one of the port districts of the city is also cloudy as Neighborhood Farm from the beach closer to the mountains. For weeks before carnival, its all systems go here. Dina enters, seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. Teen is stressed most the carnival costumes are fairly standard, so they dont cost much the queen stress is a big exception. And so the stress is a job for the boss that dina and this is how it should look the yeah know, put into the into the truck. Can it be done in time for carnival . Yes, yes. Thats some hard or easy. Hard. Does it look queenly . This is too much. Do you see . Yes. Yes. The um the the circumference of the extravagant dress is recorded on the floor. Dina isnt thrilled. Shes under a lot of time pressure. Every one is relaxed except her. Steve. Its always the same because everything comes at the last moment just before a carnival, and i only have 4 weeks. The 3 weeks later, theres not much to show yet. First they try out a model. An employee serves as a substitute queen the will there be enough time before carnival more or less the time is running out for new though to use red suit and matching red hat still have to be made for carnival. The band leaders outfit is obvious. Able to is on the present in new knows workshop. There was no money for drums or costumes. They create everything themselves, including the music go full. So he lived there, theyll go with you. Ive come up with my very own prism for the carnival that all flashed. I mean you both. Its a kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses that she knew about to you to keep me the cheapest folio piece removed. Jump out of here and look us up for food. Somebody can visit the right and i used the s e c. The right next to this is anya everett or cemetery is guitar maker. And this settles workshop more not the music of cape bird also serves as the collective memory of the cape verde ends its central theme. So daddy expresses the melancholy and yearning for home so by those who had to leave their country due to poverty. Before the 1st performance of her new morning songs, saudi a wants to give her old guitar and overhaul on the set to the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument. You need to re okay. Put in guitar. Its right. We have the best ones here. Ill show you on that list and desire be friends in classics. This movement on what you thought. Somebody else. May i try one, a cloudy i cant afford. Im a settled guitars, but theres no harm dreaming. Activity back of the page or do i have of what i think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for so do you agree . I dont and thank you one for my kind of music. One of your guitars would be great. The for a brief time she gets to hold a really good instrument. It costs around 600. 00 curos far too expensive for cloudy and shell be sticking with the old guitar for now. The new place has somewhat harder, faster with them about to cut us are the drums sections of the carnival parades. They were key part of kate, 30 and musical culture mean dello, the 2nd largest city and cape bird is the Cultural Center of the archipelago. The new nose drummers are rehearsing on the soccer field as they do every evening before carnival josh on the line of some 150. 00 drummers will come together for the event. The neighbors can forget about sleep during these weeks, but most of them are taking part. Anyway. I the rest of the sessions for dancers every evening and there is rehearsal. The noodle is you for it. We were the 1st group to start rehearsing. At this point, id say, well be ready for the what looks like and i do like the beach was one so place of hard for some 3 centuries. The speech was the side of one of the Worlds Largest slave markets. The under portuguese colonial rule, thousands of africans were chained to this pillar before being sold onto the americas and the caribbean. 2 days, the dungy valia, the former capital is a World Heritage site. After centuries of portuguese colonial rule, cape bird finally became independent in 1975. The the countrys modern day capital is about 15 kilometers away. Its called prya, which means beach, like the old capital. Its located on the cape birds, largest style, and the son to jago, the 70 percent of cape birds population. The creole descendants of both and sleep africans, and the portuguese colonizers. The cape bird. Creole language developed from the communication between slaves, engines slavers, both portuguese and creole, still spoken in cape for today. Around 20 kilometers from the capitalize the tranquil town. Oh, so domingos keywords where pasquals lives. Hes the last cape verde and who can still build and play the traditional instrument of being slaved. The symbol its base is a hollow down gord swimming pool, a symbol. What a wants to maximize this in boy is the oldest string instruments in k, but it goes back centuries and has need the european know, are american origins. It has to have come from the african continent. And as mentioned in slave accounts from the time scraps crosses each valve cover band mostly along the exact yeah, this happened is not thats a group of slides flipped to the mountains. They would dump the bad guys above us box a me in nature. I found the materials they needed to build an instrument by pointing the gun, remember lives, there must be the to keep them. So simple, a rep that covers created so the 1st and k, the to month reports to you lesson. Boeing. Double good. The do, the last i got is mostly keep me on this box. The beginnings of the 1st specific decatur, the music shown right, cooled the, about to go there was still goats in the mountains today, just like back then pasco needs their skin for the sound box. The animals can to be too young or too old. The to the next part is more difficult. Course tail hair to the boat and the strings are made from it says, you know, i saw a time not here. So you can literally send here when for them was a female. So because of the for now the instruments can already be given a rough, choose one side of the saloon. I see. So its important to basketball. The distribution be kept to live and with a, the memory of slavery, the bank and so be sent. Its nadia is also working to keep the keep 30 and musical traditional live to her next performance date is approaching. Shes excited, but its difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. Saudis thoughts straight from her studies to our new compositions and the performance. Music is a refuge. Her father left when she was very young. I mean the, the us, you, my life never been easy. Lets use explain part of my life for as long as i can remember. If i was singing along to the radio when i was to, and my mother got me a guitar when i was for the ball. Sadie, a couple of the leaves is area a bar i showed people Morning Music and made it big ella experts and brought cape fair to the attention of the world. See me yelling me and he was indeed at my job as a young woman living here today. I see that many other young people arent listening to our music anymore. So you could call the spear loan cutting, charging the combat a model of the music starting to disappear, to cool stuff with you. Dropping it was for my part i, dentist. I was more not quite sure i cant allow us to lose our roots interest. Thats why i sing more. No, you need them. Feel comfortable. Its difficult to make a living for music. Things are extremely expensive. A square the socialism is got us take the price of a loaf of bread recently and shut up from 150. 00 to 250. 00. Your school does the equivalent of around 2 euros 50. A whole loaf of bread is often too expensive to buy. Hello, do you have some cookies or conflicts . Yes, sure. Or anything else . T of the keys. Thank you. Sonya and make sure to leave some cut troup of her mother to eat when she gets home late in the evening from her job as an accountant tardy is mother doesnt earn much and most of it goes towards her own. The daughters tuition fees about a 130 years each month. Its a constant battle with my mother. She keeps telling me musics, no good, my child. And i tell her, yes it is using as a part of me. And then shell say cloud, you go and study cape virgin, use a one, pay away ill. Do you know good of the blue scarf stair done. Have you forgotten anything . Its already 9 15 pm on the evening of the 1st performance with the new songs. Its about to begin the, the key will earn her around 30 years. But its true where is greater, the saudis, songs are helping to keep keep birdie and music alive the that song she wrote on the beach about the mountain with the face. Now its live on the concert stage, the contravene a to is preparing or rather be prepared to be queen the this years queens dress has been kept secret from the public until the last moment. The, the, the catalina is nervous. People are already gathering outside for the carnival. Under queen stress isnt ready yet. The dean is at the end of her rope and catalina to needs all her strength right now. First to get into the dress. But how the its a bit difficult. This dress difficult to get into maybe, but what dean is conjured up in the last 4 weeks is truly spectacular. The last few weeks of taking their told im dina. 7 very, very, very tired. I havent slept for 24 hours. Ive worked non stop. No, not 2430 or so. It turned out beautifully. Her parents are here too, and theyre so proud the but the biggest challenge is yet to come. How to get up there onto the carnival float. Would that help with the construction because they head up, but its not very stable. She goes its shaky. Its to be. Will it get there . The, the queens in her place, high above the people, just as she should be. Down below there is cheering the, now we can begin carnival the highlight of the year in cape 3rd the, the, the different part of the parade. For new, know, its the combination of months of preparation is red hat and suit somehow got made ready just in time. The but he doesnt seem entirely satisfied. The, even the sound of his whistle can be heard and the deafening dain attention. You have to watch me the somewhere in the middle of it all is just on the soccer players. Fairly recognizable under all the make up. His 1st carnival. And this is there, saw there and some 3 things you need in life, health, money and to love. The parade only lasts for one day for one glorious night. But theyve been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. Its the music that brings every one together the, the new will tell you the story. We have a getting a visa is more difficult than finding the how much did you use the dream force. Yeah. And for the future in the stories industries that are being discussed across the country, news africa, in 30 minutes on d. W, the systems can be used to cuz different geographies. The real china itself has needs to be an incredibly scarce way. Heck, us transforming business is onto real media and lots, just green washing. Whats now on the 1st into are, is whenever they feel like it dont themselves are selling and fashion and most pieces in this guy bens how many ons, including the us have survival. How do they do it . The secret lives of the inside dogs may 22nd on d, w. The. This is data between use and these are the top stories. 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