Banda Marrove

The band Marrove from the City of Nampula was created in June 2006, having become active in 2007, through events and participation in Festivals. It should be noted that the list of senior founders includes the following: Young Ashiene, who unfortunately is not in the world of the Living, Elcídio, Hamilton, Diva and Alberto, who is also not among us. Here it should be noted that at the time (2006, 2007) the precursors were part of one of the musical bands in the city of Nampula, called “ Dillas Júniorˮ, which in their view had the objective of perpetuating the name and musical works of the mother band “ Conjunto Dillasˮ.

 In 2006, the aforementioned elements that were part of the group “Dillas junior decided to create a new group with different characteristics and musical style, with the main objective of promoting Nampulense music and the respective musical styles across borders with greater focus on Afro Tufo and Rumba. In this sense, after the union of these elements, it was decided to give the band a new name, hence the name “Marroveˮ in Emakua language, which translated into Portuguese means Lama or Matope. Meanwhile, his involvement in the world of Arts was summarized as follows:

2007- Marrove, represented the Province of Nampula with Banda Marrove in the City of Maputo, the final phase of the first musical competition organized by the Franco Mozambican Cultural Center, called OS QUEREM BE HEARED, which culminated in the first trip to the Reunions Islands .

2008- Represented the Province of Nampula again in the Inter-regional phase of the CROSSROADS Music Festival, held in the cities of Lilongwe in Malawi and Harare in Zimbabwe.

2010-Represents the Province of Nampula in the final phase of the National Culture Festival, held in the City of Chimoio in the Province of Manica. In the same year, he was given the position of representative in the Artistic Directorate of the Tambo Tambolane Tambo Cultural Association, based in the City of Pemba. Where I selected artists in Nampula to be part of the Tambo Festival.

2011-He is selected as a collaborator at Casa Velha in Nampula and in the same year, he takes on the role of Music teacher in the area of ​​Melodic and Rhythmic Solfeggio. 2011- Invited to be part of the AMMO delegation from Nampula, at this time led by Tamim Issufo. Therefore, for reasons of force majeure in the same 2011, he had to leave the Province of Nampula towards the Capital of the Country (Maputo) to continue with his studies.

 2012- Appointed to assume the position of Artistic Director at the Students' Association of the Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura (ISArC), in which for four (4) years, he performed the aforementioned role in an orderly and collaborative manner for the good of the interests of the Students and AEISAC in particular. 2012- He is part of the delegation of the Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura, as a research collaborator on traditional dances on...