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…
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…