Effective period / Period of releases: 1976 - 1996

Members: Mário Bettencourt, Ildo Lobo, Zé Rui, José Arlindo D. Couto

Os Tubarões group (The Sharkes) were long viewed as Cape Verde's "official" band in the new days after independence. This seven-piece band became the ambassadors of Capeverdean music, exporting their both light-hearted coladera dances, tradicional morna songs and funaná beats that adresses the problem of Cape Verde's far flung diaspora all over the world. One of its particularities was that none of its members was a full-time musician, they were also lawyers, doctors, civil servants and so on. "Os Tubarões" recorded 8 albums from 1976 to 1994.