Águias Reais

A group from former students of a boy’s boarding school called Casa Pia de Luanda, which was also charity institution that trained young people in trades and arts. The group Águias Reais emerged on the Angolan artistic scene in 1964, with winds, and had three moments. The first, from the initial formation, started with António Nunes da Costa (clarinet), his great driving force, Nicácio Gomes (voice and dikanza), Manuel António (saxophone), Ângelo Manuel Quental, who although was a clarinet player, became the guitar soloist of the group, Carlos Lamartine (Voice and Tambourine) and António Manuel Gonçalves (rhythm guitar), better known as Massangano. At the next stage, António Imperial (Baião) entered, who already had some experience as a soloist with Ângelo Quental, and Manuel Claudino (Manuelito), bass player, entered as well. Baião stayed for a short time and then Constantino (solo guitar) and Gino (Rhythm Guitar) from Kinito’s África Ritmos enter. Carlos Lamartine was already a vocalist in the group which in turn invited Gregório Mulato (Bongos), his brother. The group accompanied a number of artists like David Zé, Urbano de Castro and Mamukueno both on the Rebita label and Valentim de Carvalho’s N’Gola as well.