Archive for May, 2009
Thanks to the Austrian diagnostics company DIALAB we were able to realize the studio equipment transport from Ternitz, Austria, via Antwerpern, Belgium, to Maputo, Mozambique.
After reaching Maputo port the complete studio is on the way now to Inhambane where it will be installed in the Casa de Cultura.
After many years we are now able to train local technicians and music producers to promote Mozambican musical values.
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Associação Positivo Moçambique is a group of artists and activists created in 2007 with the aim of using music in a truly unique participatory approach for HIV/AIDS campaigns and awareness raising. Using music as a tool for social change Positivo has developed a method for highly effective public health messaging in Mozambique. Positivo listen to communities and record their lyrics with powerful and relevant messages about HIV/AIDS. We do not impose messages from outside. We work together with communities, have them raise questions and work together on a knowledge basis to reduce misunderstanding and myths on HIV/AIDS topics.
Positivo has been supported since the beginning by Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).
Marrabenta is a traditional mozambican music style originally played in last century with a lot of energy and dancing, today mixed with new rythms and sounds but still very strong. On 16th of May 2009, 12 bands competed during 3 hours, 2 of them – Big Boss, Ivone e as Divas do Marrabenta – winning a recording in BOM DIA Studio. 10 dancing groups of teenage girls gave demonstrations of their talents on music played by live Positivo band. The winners of April’s Rap contest – Scott Danger and Zunguza – performed the songs they recorded with BOM DIA. In the 4th hour of the shox, the dancing battle brought up the heat to its maximum and saw the victory of the Fashion Girls, with beautiful capulanas. Greater success for the second POSITIVO event in Cine-Teatro Tofo, thanks to FSD and PROMARTE. POSITIVO’s galaxy of stars from Inhambane is expanding.
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