“Grândola, Vila Morena”, José Afonso José Afonso’s music is already so digested by our collective memory that, when we listen to an album of his, we listen to what we have in our memory and not what is recorded. There…
Celebrating April 25th: The Music of Portugal April 25th, also known as the Carnation Revolution, marks the day when Portugal transitioned from a dictatorship to a democratic government in 1974. This day is celebrated annually in Portugal as a national…
Francisco Fanhais, interpreter of Portuguese intervention music, was one of the voices of resistance to the regime before the 25th of April. A companion of Zeca Afonso, he continues to this day to try to “unite those for whom the…
José Carlos Pereira Ary dos Santos (Lisbon, São Sebastião da Pedreira, December 7, 1936 – Lisbon, Santiago, January 18, 1984) was a Portuguese poet and declaimer. He was in the history of Portuguese music for having written poems for 4…
