(Guinea Bissau) Songwriter Jorge Da Silva Bidinte is from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, an area that shares a mournful musical affinity with nearby Cape Verde. As demonstrated in his video, he is a singer, guitarist and percussionist - and he has something to say.  "Ke Cu Minino Na Tchora" means "Why does the child cry," and the lyrics by José Carlos Schwartz, a Guinean poet, tell simply yet affectingly of the horror of growing up in a war zone.  "The big birds came with their bodies of fire, the big birds came with their slaughtering eggs."  The music itself is lilting, pushed on by a percolating electric guitar, but the vocals and the sobering images keep the feeling dark.

(Guinea Bissau) Songwriter Jorge Da Silva Bidinte is from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, an area that shares a mournful musical affinity with nearby Cape Verde. As demonstrated in his video, he is a singer, guitarist and percussionist - and he has something to say.  "Ke Cu Minino Na Tchora" means "Why does the child cry," and the lyrics by José Carlos Schwartz, a Guinean poet, tell simply yet affectingly of the horror of growing up in a war zone.  "The big birds came with their bodies of fire, the big birds came with their slaughtering eggs."  The music itself is lilting, pushed on by a percolating electric guitar, but the vocals and the sobering images keep the feeling dark.