Codé di Dona

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Codé di Dona is revered as the father of funaná, the accordion master from Santiago who kept the rural gaita-and-ferrinho tradition alive through decades when the colonial establishment scorned it. Largely unrecorded until late in life, his 1990s albums finally captured the raw, unaccompanied source of a music others would electrify. His songs, blunt and earthy, are the taproot of the whole funaná tree.