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Kuduro (or kuduru) is a type of music and dance originally developed in Angola in the 1980s. It is characterized as uptempo energetic and danceable. Kuduro began in Luanda Angola in the late 1980s. Initially producers sampled traditional carnival music like soca and zouk from the Caribbean and also semba from Angola and laid this around a fast 4/4 beat.The kuduro (the Portuguese hard cu which literally means hard ass ) is similar to the Kizomba rhythm.