Today completely anonymous, LINHA GERAL was one of the most promising projects in modern Portuguese music and one of those that best managed to convey its vision to a studio recording without losing anything in the process. Intervention music strongly…
“Letra Para Um Hino” (Lyrics to an Anthem), Francisco Fanhais Recorded in Rome in 1975, República was not released in Portugal. And it’s a shame. José Afonso and Francisco Fanhais participated in this register of solidarity with the newspaper República,…
“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…
The resistance songs or protest songs, considered after the April 1974 revolution as intervention songs, are made up of poems and songs denouncing a present of repression and arise as a struggle for a better world. With no commercial purpose,…
Vitorino Salomé Vieira (Redondo, Portugal, June 11, 1942), or just Vitorino, as he is known, is a Portuguese singer. His music combines traditional folklore, mainly from Alentejo, and the popular style of his voice. Vitorino was born into a family…
Luís Fernando Castelo Branco Cília OL (born February 1, 1943 in Nova Lisboa, Angola) is a Portuguese composer and performer. Luís Cília is an intervention singer who, while in exile in France, denounced the colonial war and the lack of…
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…
Times change, wills change, announced José Mário Branco in his first album, released in 1971 in France, where he was in exile. This album, with poems by Natália Correia, Alexandre O’Neill, Luís de Camões and Sérgio Godinho, would be a…
Manuel Freire was born on April 25, 1942 and is one of the leading figures of a generation of intervention musicians who sang the Carnation Revolution. Many will think he was born in Ovar, but no. He was born in…
Carlos Alberto Moniz was born in Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Archipelago on August 2, 1948. He studied at the Portuguese Institute of Agronomy, but music has always been his passion. This musician has a long career in music as an…
Sérgio Godinho was born in 1945, in Porto. His mother and uncle had had musical training, which influenced him as a child, and his father was, in Sérgio Godinho’s description, a music lover; he soon got used to listening to…
José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos (2 August 1929 in Aveiro – 23 February 1987 in Setúbal) was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. He is also known by the familiar diminutive of Zeca Afonso, although he never used this stage…