ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY
Fidju Kitxora
Fidju Kitxora is an emerging and enigmatic project that moves between Lisbon and Cape Verde. After debuting at Boom Festival, in 2024 they released Racodja, an album that connects the voices of the diaspora through a sound in constant evolution. Blending funaná, semba, kuduro, afro-house, and traditional music with synthesizers, field recordings, and infectious rhythms, this vibrant project fuses tradition and electronics with a unique identity.
Living in anonymity is a condition that becomes most powerful when we are surrounded by a crowd. That dark pleasure of moving among unfamiliar bodies to the beat. Fidju Kitxora, meaning ‘crying child’ in Cape Verdean Creole, hides his face when he steps on stage. His music is a tapestry of voices lost in the diaspora, of testimonies from forced exiles, of colonial legacies and collective amnesia. With rhythms that blend the torrid funaná with semba and kuduro, Fidju Kitxora invites us to float through the crowd — and, as we dance, perhaps to find a path toward truly meeting the other.
Macià Florit
Filmmaker