Up close and personal with Yola Semedo

Yola Semedo performing at the Johnnie Walker Jazz and Soul Safari festival in Kampala on September 2, 2017. PHOTO | COURTESY

The award-winning Angolan Kizomba musician Yola Moutofa Coimbra Semedo aka Yola Semedo, electrified the recently held Johnnie Walker Jazz and Soul Safari festival with her sensuous kizomba rhythms and dance.

Performing as the headline act at the Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala on September 2, Semedo who was accompanied by the Impactus 4 band is considered one of the finest exponents of the Angolan genres of kizomba, semba and zouk.