page_title: Lusafrica
hierarchical_section_title: Lusafrica
caption_attribution_description: Cesária Évora, 2008
context_page_description: Lusafrica, full name: Productions Lusafrica is a multinational independent record label company based in Paris, France. The company was founded in 1988 by José da Silva, it was the first multinational record company opened in Cape Verde and one of the first in France. It is the main African independent label in France.
  The company had originally produced records by artists mainly from Cape Verde and other lusophone countries. Since, the company has recorded by artists from the United States, Cuba, Brazil and France.
context_section_description: Lusafrica, full name: Productions Lusafrica (French for Lusafrica Productions) is a multinational independent record label company based in Paris, France.  The company was founded in 1988 by José da Silva (born in 1959 in Praia, Cape Verde), it was the first multinational record company opened in Cape Verde and one of the first in France.  It is the main African independent label in France.
  The company had originally produced records by artists mainly from Cape Verde and other lusophone countries. Since, the company has recorded by artists from the United States, Cuba, Brazil and France.
caption: Cesária Évora, Lusafrica's first artist
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