It is a reflection on the musical tones, their musicians and their influence even in our time .
Say that the Portuguese music has a very important role in the April 25th is redundant, since we can effectively mentally reproduce a soundtrack for the Carnation Revolution , the hard part is choosing. And I issue the challenge, to the more patients readers to choose your songs. I start of course with the " after the farewell" a gorgeous song by Paul de Carvalho, who was the password for the beginning of the end of the dictatorship. The second theme is " Grândola vila morena" , Zeca Afonso , a song banned by the Estado Novo, it was played on Radio Renaissance,in the dawn of the revolution , as the second national sign, to say that the revolutionaries revolutionary maneuvers could proceed safely and which also became in our current social and political context , the anthem of the protest of the Portuguese people, 40 years later. I could not forget and have to talk about Pedro Barroso and my choice is the song, "Old struggles and new songs" that says " the strength of a people is also created to sing". José Mário Branco is another name that cannot stay out of this musical journey, " warning " that reflects well this period in time and with this spirit in mind , Carlos Mendes praises the Lisbon of hope and contentment with the the "monologue of the worker " and until we have a voice "forever companions" of Fernando Tordo, with lyrics by José Carlos Ary dos Santos. Although he was not as well known as others, Vieira da Silva sang the revolutionary Portugal with such certainty that "people will win " and I end with the unmatched Sérgio Godinho which states that there is only peace, bread, housing, health and education when there is "freedom " and that sentence has never been so true and current like today. Interestingly, in this " trip" thru the Portuguese music of the 70s , few or almost no female singers appear as musical references of this revolutionary period, which is nonetheless curious, given that they certainly also sang April.
