Moreira Chonguiça
Mozambican musician
Moreira Chonguiça is a Mozambican jazz saxophonist. In 2010 he started a jazz festival, Morejazz, in Maputo; artists invited to play at the festival also hold master-classes at the Eduardo Mondlane University of the city. In June 2010 his group The Moreira Project opened the Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. He collaborated with Manu Dibango on the album M & M, which was released in 2017.
“Moreira Chonguiça” enters the record as mozambican musician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moreira, Chonguiça and Mozambican can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6911274. VIAF identifies the subject as 480152684001023430003. The Library of Congress control number is no2018061354. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 2017.
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