Raymon Lema Ainsi Nzinga, as known as Ray Lima, is a pianist, a guitar player and Congolese composer (RDC). Born in 1946, he learned to play the piano very young while going to the Church. However the first instrument that he really played was the guitar as a member of the Gérard Kazembe Orchestra. In 1974, as he was just hired as the Musical Direcot the National Ballet of Zaire in Kinshasa, he formed the orchestra who would play and accompany the legendary box fight between Mohamed Ali and George Foreman. Sadly, following the disagreement he had with the Mobutu regime, he was constrained to leave his homeland to live in France in 1982. In 1985, he collabed with Tony Allen for the project "Caravane Jericho", an artists collective united against the imprisonment of Fela Kuti. During his career, Ray Lema was part of 20 albums and awaded the Charles Cros Academy Prize (2013). He is now a UNESCO spokeperson, godfather and initiator of the project of the African Musical University (UMA).

Originally from Cape Verde, Manu Lima grew up in Senegal. In this end of th 70s, he created with his cousin a band called Cabo Verde Show. At the beginning of the 80s, the band became one the most popular formation in West Africa. The band succeeded at touching a large audience though mixing different inspirations in its music : Caper verdean (mornas and colleras), brasilian (samba and bossa-nova) et senegalese (malaxa) as well as african-american (soul and funk). When the band slit up at the end of the 80s, Manu Lima became a very asked producer by numerous artists.

Born in Boavsita, Tiolino is part of a great lineage of Cape verdean musicians. He grew up listening to his father, Victor Hugo, who was a renowned guitar player. However he distinguinshed himself from his father by bringin in his music some more intense rythms.

Raised in a family where music was not considered to be a life choise, Ismael Lo used to secretly play the guitar that he made himslef with his cousins. After a few years un the Institute of Arts of Dakar, his talent was noticed in a TV program. This success allowed him to first join the Super Dinamo band. Then, he was able to star his own solo career and was soon nicknamed the "African Bob Dylan". His compositions became very famous and well-known especially as he composed several tracks for movies. In 2002 he became Knight of the Legion of Honour in France.

Ildo Lobo was a member of the famous caboverdean band Os Tubaroes (1976). In 1996n he recorded his first solo album "Nos Morna", as an hommage to his father Antoninho Lobo, emblematic figure of the mornas played on the Santiago Island, who had passed away a few years prior.

Tcheka is renowned in Cabo Verde as a composer and a performer. He brings modernity to one of the most popular and ancient musical tradition of the Santiago Island : the batuque.

Born in 1938 in Santo Antao, Manuel de Novas is considered as one of the biggest author, composer, guitar player and poet from Cabo Verde. He is renowned in the whole world through his coladeiras and mornas compositions, which were performed by biggest artists from Cabo Verde like Cesaria Evora, Bana, Os Tubaroes, Ildo Lobo or Titna.

Coming from Guadeloupe, G'Ny is an artist who mixed West Indian music with American influences (Soul, Rnb and hip-hop)

Mario Lucio is known to be the founder of Simentera, a band created in 1992. Painter, Poem writer, and successful author, Mario Lucio was also the caboverdean Minister of Culture from 2011 to 2016.