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1 Santos, José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso
(1929-1987)Balladeer, singer, poet, musician, composer, and teacher. Known to the public simply as "Zeca" or "José Afonso," he was a student poet, singer, and musician in the 1950s, and premier interpreter of Coimbra fado, creator of a new school of fado music, and leader of a reform movement in popular music. Using his distinctive musical compositions, appealing baritone singing voice, and iconoclastic lyrics of resistance to tyranny, Afonso Santos employed his poetic and musical gifts as instruments of resistance and opposition to the enduring Estado Novo. Two recorded songs became early shots in this war: Balada de Outono (Autumn's Ballad) and Menino d'Oiro (Golden Boy). With diverse, subversive meanings usually disguised in allegory, his lyrics and style eschewed the traditional Coimbra fado's fare of broad sentiment and unrequited love. Instead, Afonso presented new ballads with contemporary resonance. In the mid-1960s, when so many Portuguese youth were drafted and mobilized for Portugal's colonial wars in Africa, he lived and taught school in Mozambique, where he organized opposition to the regime. Later in that colony, he was arrested by the PIDE.After his return to Portugal, Afonso's reputation as a rebel ballad-eer grew; among his most celebrated recorded ballads were Cantigas de Maio (Songs of May, 1971) and Venham Mais Cinco (Five More Came, 1973). His famous revolutionary, rallying song, Grândola, Vila Morena, banned by the Estado Novo before 1974, became the single most famous piece of Portuguese revolutionary music in the second half of the 20th century. Grândola featured Afonso's voice and lyrics and expressed a clearly leftist ideology and resistance to tyranny, to the background sounds of marching feet growing louder. Selected by the coup planners of the Armed Forces Movement as a signal for action, a secret password sign to be played over Lisbon radio at about midnight on 24/25 April 1974, this remarkable song acquired new fame and a place in history as both an actual signal for rebel military operations to begin and an enduring revolutionary rallying cry. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Grândola became the most potent symbol of the move to topple the Estado Novo and open the way for profound change, as well as a musical icon, equaled only by the iconographic red carnation. The first stanza of Afonso's lyrics, translated from the Portuguese, is: Grândola, dark-brown town, Homeland of Brotherhood The people have more power within you, oh city....Historical dictionary of Portugal > Santos, José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso
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Zeca Afonso — José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, also known as Zeca Afonso (pron. IPA2| zɛkɐ a fõsu) or only Zeca (August 2, 1929 February 23, 1987) was born in Aveiro, Portugal, son of José Nepomuceno Afonso, a judge, and Maria das Dores. Zeca is among… … Wikipedia
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António Vicente Campinas — is a Portuguese poet from Algarve. His works include the book Raiz da Serenidade . He is especially famous for his poem Cantar Alentejano , in honor of Catarina Eufémia. The poem, with music by José Afonso, is on the album Cantigas de Maio ,… … Wikipedia
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Jose Afonso — José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, kurz José Afonso, (* 2. August 1929 in Aveiro, Portugal; † 23. Februar 1987 in Setúbal), auch genannt Zeca Afonso, war einer der bedeutendsten Sänger und Komponisten Portugals. Sein … Deutsch Wikipedia
José Afonso — Detail des Monuments für Zeca Alfonso in Grândola. José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, kurz José Afonso, (* 2. August 1929 in Aveiro, Portugal; † 23. Februar 1987 in Setúbal), auch genannt Zeca Afonso, oder nur … Deutsch Wikipedia
José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos — José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, kurz José Afonso, (* 2. August 1929 in Aveiro, Portugal; † 23. Februar 1987 in Setúbal), auch genannt Zeca Afonso, war einer der bedeutendsten Sänger und Komponisten Portugals. Sein … Deutsch Wikipedia
Zeca Afonso — José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, kurz José Afonso, (* 2. August 1929 in Aveiro, Portugal; † 23. Februar 1987 in Setúbal), auch genannt Zeca Afonso, war einer der bedeutendsten Sänger und Komponisten Portugals. Sein Lied … Deutsch Wikipedia
Zeca Alfonso — José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, kurz José Afonso, (* 2. August 1929 in Aveiro, Portugal; † 23. Februar 1987 in Setúbal), auch genannt Zeca Afonso, war einer der bedeutendsten Sänger und Komponisten Portugals. Sein Lied … Deutsch Wikipedia
