AFRO STREAM. WINDECK EP01 – THE EDGE OF BLACK BEAUTY, SEDUCTION, REVENGE AND POWER ✊🏾😍😜 – FULL EPISODE, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEh2dVrTGp8.
This Telenovela has happened to be a large influence for my research because of the relevancy in both the fashion and music industries. Everyone in Angola watches this show which makes it so culturally relevant. It is still airing and incorporating new music and fashion aspirations. In this first episode you can see the mix of hip hop, afrobeat, Latin American fashion and the struggle to make it in the transnational fashion industry that is so cut-throat.
From my observations while reading about Angola and Brazil’s cultural exchange, this show was one that truly unified the ideologies of the suitcase traders, the Kuduro artists and how they value Brazilian aspirations of wealth. From one of my main sources, Barreau-Trann explained how telenovelas that originate from Brazil exemplify and exaggerate on middle class aspirations found in Brazil. Made by Semba Comunicacio, it is all about the deception and beauty played out in an Angolan lifestyle magazine. Windeck even won an international Emmy Award for best Telenovela in 2013.