Artist's albums
Paz, Poeta e Pombas
1973 · single
Baladas e Canções
1997 · album
Com As Minhas Tamanquinhas
1976 · album
Fura Fura
2023 · album
Enquanto Há Força
2023 · album
Tinha Uma Sala Mal Iluminada
2023 · single
A Acupuntura em Odemira
2023 · single
Os Índios da Meia-Praia
2022 · single
Alípio de Freitas
2022 · single
Os Fantoches de Kissinger
2022 · single
Só Ouve o Brado da Terra
2022 · single
Eu Marchava de Dia e de Noite
2022 · single
Coro Dos Tribunais
2022 · single
Ó Ti Alves
2022 · single
A Morte Saiu à Rua
2022 · single
Cantigas do Maio
2022 · single
Os Eunucos (No Reino Da Etiópia)
2021 · single
Canto Moço
2021 · single
Já O Tempo Se Habitua
2021 · single
Vai Maria Vai
2021 · single
Tecto Na Montanha
2021 · single
Canção de Embalar
2021 · single
Natal Dos Simples
2021 · single
Coro dos Tribunais
1974 · album
Venham Mais Cinco
1973 · album
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Biography
José Afonso was born in August 1929, in Aveiro, Portugal. His early recordings in the 50’s reveal one of the most brilliant singers of Fado de Coimbra. Into the 60’s he moves away from this classic repertoire and starts blending traditional popular music styles into his novel lyrics and melodic ballads. He also becomes more politically and socially aware, coming under the radar of the dictatorial regime’s attention, with songs (ex. ‘Os Vampiros’) officially censured by the political police (PIDE). By the early 70’s he had become the voice of a muzzled people in a country sending their young to war with the African liberation movements. ‘Grandola Vila Morena’ would become the radio signal and later the hymn for the military revolution on 25th April 1974. José Afonso’s landmark 14 LPs are a unique journey into the contemporary Portuguese folk music scene: “Baladas e Canções” (1967), “Cantares do Andarilho” (1968), “Contos Velhos Rumos Novos” (1969), “Traz Outro Amigo Também” (1970, recorded in London), “Cantigas do Maio” (1971, Paris), “Eu Vou Ser Como a Toupeira (1972, Madrid), “Venham Mais Cinco” (1973, Paris), “Coro dos Tribunais” (1974), “Com as Minhas Tamanquinhas” (1976), “Enquanto Há Força” (1978), “Fura Fura” (1979), “Fados de Coimbra e Outras Canções” (1981), “Como se Fora seu Filho” (1983), and “Galinhas do Mato” (1985). His last concert, at Lisbon’s Coliseu in 1983 when already suffering from advanced ALS disease, is released that year. José Afonso dies in 1987.