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kuduro

kuduro noun: an energetic, danceable style of music originating in Angola, combining local styles like semba with influences from Caribbean music, especially zouk and soca.

Noun

kuduro (uncountable)

  1. An energetic, danceable style of music originating in Angola, combining local styles like semba with influences from Caribbean music, especially zouk and soca.
    • 'This is how we do it in Lisbon,' he warns with gruff Portuguese annunciation. Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour....2008 March 23, Jaimie Hodgson, “When kuduro came to town”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Forms of kuduro

alternative formkuduru

Origin of kuduro

Borrowed from Portuguese kuduro.

Questions about kuduro

What does kuduro mean?
Kuduro means an energetic, danceable style of music originating in Angola, combining local styles like semba with influences from Caribbean music, especially zouk and soca.
What part of speech is kuduro?
Kuduro is a noun.

Words near kuduro in the dictionary

  1. Kudrna
  2. Kudrnas
  3. kudu
  4. kudu berries
  5. kudu berry
  6. kuduro
  7. kudurru
  8. kudurrus
  9. kuduru
  10. kudus
  11. kudyapi

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