The organization of the "music, creativity and technology" festival has announced more than 30 new artists who complete the lineup of the 29th edition, which takes place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of June in Barcelona.
In the list of 30 artists is Pongo, who will perform at the festival on June 16th.
The singer is also part of the Sónar Lisboa poster, which will take place for the first time in the Portuguese capital from April 8 to 10, 2022, in various spaces and rooms.
Pongo's career in music began at the age of 15, when she gave voice to Buraka Som Sistema's song "Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)".
In 2019, at the age of 27, she released her first solo EP, "Baia", and in 2020 her second, "Uwa", edited by Caroline International.
The singer's first album is scheduled for this year and will be edited by Universal France.
"I signed with Universal France my album, which we are working on, and which 'Bruxos' is part of. Having the band in France and the production structure, during the pandemic, what I did was recording for the album and we communicated, worked and made some promotions", he explained to Lusa in October last year, in Paris, adding that the new work will be "a mixture of rhythms and feelings".
Pongo entered the 'radar' of several international media, such as the publication NME, which placed her on the list of 100 new artists that would mark 2020, and the BBC Radio 6 Music station, which included Pongo songs in its 'playlist'.
In 2020, she was one of the winners of the Music Moves Europe awards, which recognize emerging artists representing the "European sound of today and tomorrow".
Last year, she toured that included dates in Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal.
Born in Angola, Pongo moved to Portugal as a child. The taste for music and dance owes it to the family.
Pongo confessed, in an interview with Lusa in 2020, that he had “difficulty in creating an identity” for the style of music he makes, but ended up concluding that “it is a mixture of everything a little bit”, which includes what he did with Buraka. , "which is the evolution, the innovation of kuduro, of a sound from Angola, mixed with European rhythms, electronics, which they called progressive kuduro".
