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In this movement names such as Adriano Correia de Oliveira and José Afonso ( Zeca Afonso ) had a leading role in the revolution taking place in popular Portuguese music.
Next, on 25 April 1974 at 12: 20 am, Radio Renascença broadcast Grândola, Vila Morena, a song by Zeca Afonso, an influential folk and political musician-singer forbidden on Portuguese radio at the time.
Guitar player Carlos Paredes and singer Zeca Afonso, are among its most renowned and historical figures.
Many composers and singers became famous and persecuted by the political police, some of them being arrested or exiled, such as Zeca Afonso, Paulo de Carvalho, José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Manuel Freire, Fausto, Vitorino, Júlio Pereira and some others.
One of its main protagonists was José ( Zeca ) Afonso ( 1929 – 1987 ) but others also contributed to its development, for example Adriano Correia de Oliveira, José Mário Branco, Luís Cilia, Francisco Fanhais, José Jorge Letria, José Barata Moura and Sérgio Godinho.
" Grândola, Vila Morena " is a Portuguese song by Zeca Afonso, that tells of the fraternity among the people of Grândola, a town in the Alentejo.
Grândola was first sung at a Zeca Afonso concert in Galicia ´ s capital of Santiago de Compostela, on May 10, 1972.
Despite the modest showing in Brighton at the Contest itself, the song achieved considerable fame as one of the two signals to launch the Carnation Revolution in Portugal against the Estado Novo regime of Marcelo Caetano-the other being the folk song " Grândola Vila Morena " by Zeca Afonso, which was the signal for the coup leaders to announce that they had taken control of strategic parts of the country.
Some of its better known former members include Salgado Zenha, Manuel Alegre, António de Almeida Santos, Miguel Torga, António Nobre, Vergílio Ferreira, Zeca Afonso, and Adriano Correia de Oliveira.
José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as Zeca Afonso () or just Zeca ( 2 August 1929 – 23 February 1987 ), was born in Aveiro, Portugal, the son of José Nepomuceno Afonso, a judge, and Maria das Dores.
Years after his death, Zeca Afonso is still widely listened to, not only in Portugal, but also abroad.
In 1991, the city of Amadora inaugurated a 12-foot statue of Zeca Afonso in the city's Central Park.
In 1995 José Mário Branco, Amélia Muge, and João Afonso, Zeca's nephew, released another album in homage to Zeca, called Maio, Maduro Maio, that included many of his songs and two previously unreleased ones, " Entre Sodoma e Gomorra " and " Nem Sempre os Dias São Dias Passados ".
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