Monday, January 22, 2007

Capoeira Lyrics and Music - The Holy Grail

I can't believe it was sitting there right in front of me all this time. For those of you not familiar with Capoeira, music plays a HUGE role in the art. The problem (for me at least) is that all of the music is in Portuguese.

With a monolingual person like myself, that's no small hurdle. Learning songs in a different language is tough. In a lot of cases I find myself just mimicking the sounds, without knowing the words. If I know the words, I typically don't know their meaning. If I know the words, and their meaning, it doesn't necessarily mean I know what they sound like when sung.

So, when I found the links a the bottom of the Capoeira Music page at Wikipedia, it was like a breath of fresh air. Here are the direct links below,

I started with Capoeira4All.com, which has some songs with lyrics and audio, but those Wikipedia links are great.

2 Comments:

Blogger bea said...

waw, nice site!
i found it while searching for capoeira lyrics. i think i'll add you to my list of link pages on my blog =)
feel free to visit my blogspot sometime. bea-hive.blogspot.com

axé!
ursa

4:22 AM  
Blogger yohay said...

I must add this site
http://capoeira-music.webnode.com
Its a huge source for capoeira, samba de roda and maculele lyrics, well orgenized and with audio links!!
realy recomended

4:15 PM  

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