Paulo Flores is an Angolan singer-songwriter who was one of the architects of his country’s immensely popular kizomba dance music back in the 1980s. Today he devotes his energy to keeping the flame of semba music burring bright in the 21st century.
 
Semba is the elegant, earthy, African ancestor of Brazilian samba — and the root of today’s kuduro and kizomba dance crazes. Flores’ poetic compositions focus on everything from love and life to history and politics, tapping into the deep roots that make semba the repository of decades of Angolan wit and wisdom.
 
In a country where the deep wounds of civil war are plastered over with new oil money and a beachfront building boom. Paulo Flores keeps a nation’s conscience and memory alive, and gives voice to the soul of a nation.
 
Paulo Flores official site