Marrabenta veteran Lisboa Matavel, also known as the Troubadour of Mozambique, died on 6 November 2002 at the age of 64. He started singing in the early 1960s, during Mozambique's 'golden age' when Maputo, which was still known as Lourenço Marques under Portuguese rule, was still the musical capital of southern Africa. Lisboa Matavel performed his last international concerts in 2001 - 27 July at the Womad Festival in Reading (UK) and 29 July at the
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Marrabenta veteran Lisboa Matavel, also known as the Troubadour of Mozambique, died on 6 November 2002 at the age of 64. He started singing in the early 1960s, during Mozambique's 'golden age' when Maputo, which was still known as Lourenço Marques under Portuguese rule, was still the musical capital of southern Africa. Lisboa Matavel performed his last international concerts in 2001 - 27 July at the Womad Festival in Reading (UK) and 29 July at the Sfinks Festival near Antwerp (Belgium) - as member of the internationally renowned Mabulu project. Lisboa Matavel was a musician who had developed the music of his native country for decades, but who only became famous to a wider international audience in old age. On 28 August 2000, when he took his seat in an aeroplane for the first time in his life to go on Mabulu's first European tour, he already had a career of forty years as a musician behind him.
