April 25th and Portuguese Music
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.…
Brigada Victor Jara
Brigada Victor Jara is a Portuguese band created in 1975. It began as an informal group of young people from Coimbra and has become one of the most enduring and…
Vitorino
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…
Luís Cília
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…
Ermelinda Duarte
Maria Ermelinda Oliveira Duarte (Lourenço Marques, October 6, 1946) is a Portuguese singer, actress and dubber. In 1969 she joined TEL – Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa. In 1970 she played…
Adriano Correia de Oliveira
Adriano Maria Correia Gomes de Oliveira, or just Adriano (April 9, 1942 – October 16, 1982) was a Portuguese musician, born to a conservative Roman Catholic family in Porto. His…
Francisco Fanhais
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…
José Mário Branco
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…
Paulo De Carvalho
“More than a singer I am a musician, I play voice” Paulo de Carvalho is an unavoidable name in Portuguese music in recent decades. Making his professional career outside the…
Sérgio Godinho
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,…