Sing April: six revolutionary songs – Part 2
“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…
Sing April: six revolutionary songs – Part 1
“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…
Protest, resistence and revolution songs in Portugal. What are they?
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…
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…
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…
Zeca Afonso
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…