He was born in the Algarve, the son of Cape Verdean parents who soon became involved in the globalized urban music movements, merging the universe of soul, hip-hop with Batuku and Funaná.
In his own name, he released the albums “Eu e os Meus” (Edel 2008) and “Eva” (Lusafrica 2013) winning two Cape Verde Music Awards, in the categories of best acoustic album and best Kola Sanjon with the theme “KabuTchora”. Five years later, he released the celebrated Mundu Nôbu (Sony Music, 2019), which helped him establish his musical signature that mixes Afro-pop, with the music of the Cape Verde archipelago as its epicenter. In 2019, in the first edition of the Play Awards, Dino D’Santiago was distinguished in the categories of Best Solo Artist, Best Album and Critics, with the album Mundu Nôbu. At the Cape Verde Music Awards, he won in the category of best international rhythm and GQ Portugal awarded him the Man of The Year award in the area of music.
A new chapter in Dino d’Santiago’s musical journey arrives in 2020 with ‘Kriola’, an album that receives praise from international critics, such as Rolling Stone, Complex and Folha de São Paulo and in Portugal is once again distinguished with three Play Vodafone awards for best album, best song and best male artist.
Influenced by fatherhood, by various changes in his daily life and family life, and by a pandemic context that proved to be too intense, Dino d’Santiago creates ‘BADIU’. An album that is the result of a community work, with many borders but no limits. A work packed with Batuku, cathartic, raw and black, which allowed new generations of Cape Verdeans to reconcile and learn to claim their African heritage. A vibrant collection of stories from the Creole nation that has the Atlantic as an extension of its territory and music as the only refuge for joy.
Founder of the Lisboa Criola project, he was considered in 2021 one of the 100 most influential people of African descent by MIPAD (Most Influential People of African Descent). In 2022 she was in charge of curating the Summer Gardens event at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, an event that featured 30 concerts by artists from the outskirts of Lisbon in the foundation’s gardens and was distinguished by Time Out magazine that same year as the event of the year. In 2023 he was chosen by Expresso as one of the 50 figures who can define the future of Portugal. Dino D’Santiago is also an activist for social causes, participating in several projects for equity and social equality.
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