José Mário Branco

Jose Mario Branco 2011

José Mário Branco (born May 25, 1942 in Porto ; † November 19, 2019 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese musician, actor, producer and composer (see singer-songwriter ).

Life

He grew up as the son of a school teacher in Porto and studied history at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra of the University of Coimbra . As a singer of system-critical songs during the Estado Novo , he was persecuted by the PIDE and went into exile in France in 1963 . He worked with José Afonso , Sérgio Godinho , Luís Represas , Fausto and Camané and others at concerts or on albums as a singer, but also as a composer and was responsible for musical arrangements. He composed and sang for theater, film and television. In 1974 he returned to Portugal and founded the group GAC - Grupo de Acção Cultural , with which two albums were released.

José Mario Branco (left) as producer Camanés , photo from the documentary "Fado Camané" by Bruno de Almeida , 2014

His best-known recordings under the styles of protest song , fado and similar are Ser Solidário , Margem de Certa Maneira , A noite and FMI (FMI stands for Fundo Monetário Internacional , the International Monetary Fund ), which describes the Portuguese revolutionary movement with its dreams and disappointments. The latter was banned by him for reproduction on radio, TV and other types of public broadcasting. Despite the ban, FMI is probably his best-known work. His last album, which was released in 2004, is titled Resistir é Vencer (English: Resistance is Victory ) in honor of the people of East Timor , who have endured the decades of occupation by the Indonesian army since the Carnation Revolution . Socialist ideology is expressed in many of his texts.

2006, at age 64, José Mário Branco began a licentiate of linguistics at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa of the University of Lisbon . He finished the first year with an average of 19.1 and was considered the best student on the course. He disregarded the honor he received and said that it was normal in an academic career.

In 2009 he gave two concerts with Sérgio Godinho and Fausto entitled Três Cantos (English: three singers ).

José Mário Branco died of a stroke in Lisbon at the age of 77.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		PT
1973	Margem de certa maneira	PT40 (1 week) PT	Chart entry in PT only in 2019
1990	Correspondências	PT39 (1 week) PT	Chart entry in PT only in 2019
1997	José Mário Branco ao vivo em 1997	PT44 (1 week) PT	Chart entry in PT only in 2019
1999	Canções escolhidas 71/97	PT7 (11 weeks) PT	Chart entry in PT only in 2018
2004	Resist é vencer	PT9 (4 weeks) PT
2018	Inéditos (1967-1999)	PT3 (19 weeks) PT
2019	Resistir é Vencer (Edição 50 Anos)	PT22 (1 week) PT

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades (1971)
• A cantiga é uma arma (1976)
• Pois canté! (1977)
• A Mãe (1978)
• A Confederação (1978)
• Ser solidário (1982)
• A Noite (1985)

EPs

• Seis cantigas de Amigo (1967)
• Marchas Populares (1978)
• Gente do Norte (1978)
• O Ladrão do Pão (1978)

Singles

• Ronda do Soldadinho (1969)
• FMI (1982)
• Qual é a tua ó meu / S. João do Porto (1982)

Cooperations

• James Ollivier - James Ollivier (1968) LP, Boite à Musique
• Jean Sommer - Beauté (1968) LP, Barclay
• Jean Sommer - Lafête est à nous (1971) single, Unisson
• José Afonso - Cantigas do Maio (1971) LP, Arnaldo Trindade, Orfeu
• José Jorge Letria - Até ao pescoço (1972) LP, Sassetti, Guilda da Música
• José Afonso - Venham mais cinco (1973) LP, Arnaldo Trindade, Orfeu
• Quarteto De Música Em Si - Página em branco (1980) Songle, Arnaldo Trindade, Orfeu
• José Afonso - Como se fora seu filho (1983) LP, Sassetti, Triângulo (3 songs)
• Carlos do Carmo - Um homem no país (1983) LP, Polygram, Philips
• José Afonso - Galinhas do mato (1985) LP, Transmedia, Schiu! (In collaboration with Júlio Pereira and José Afonso).
• Janita Salomé - Olho de fogo (1987) LP, Transmedia, Schiu!
• Carlos do Carmo - Que se fez homem de cantar (1990) LP, Polygram, Philips (2 songs)
• Amélia Muge - Todos os dias… (1994) CD, Sony Música, Columbia
• Gaiteiros de Lisboa - Invasões bárbaras (1995) CD, Farol
• Camané - Uma noite de fados (1995) CD, EMI - Valentim de Carvalho
• Camané - Bom dia, Benjamim (1995) CD, Movieplay
• Amélia Muge - Taco a taco (1998) CD, Polygram, Mercury (6 songs)
• Camané - Na linha da vida (1998) CD, EMI - Valentim de Carvalho
• Camané - Esta coisa da alma (2000) CD, EMI - Valentim de Carvalho.
• Camané - Pelo Dia Dentro (2001) CD, EMI
• Camané - Semper de Mim (2008) CD, EMI
• Sérgio Godinho and Fausto - Três Cantos (2009) 2 CD / DVD, EMI
• Camané - Do amor e Das rosas (2010) CD, EMI

Concerts

• Ser solidário (1980/81/82)
• A noite (1985)
• Fim de noite (1987)
• Correspondências (1991/92)
• Maio, maduro Maio (1991) - with Amélia Muge and João Afonso
• Ao vivo em 1997 (1997)
• Festival Outono em Lisboa (1998)
• Do Natal aos Reis (1998) - with Jean Sommer
• As margens da alegria (1999)
• Três Cantos (2009) - with Sérgio Godinho and Fausto

theatre

Grupo de Teatro da Liga

• Farsas , from Gil Vicente ;
• Auto da compadecida , by Ariano Suassuna ;
• As espingardas da Tia Carrar , by Bertolt Brecht ;
• Aerofagus (wrote 26 songs).

Groupe Organon

• La Comune de Paris
• O racismo
• A jovem poesia inglesa e americana

Comuna

• A mãe , by Bertolt Brecht (1977)
• Homem morto, homem posto (1979)
• A Pécora , by Natália Correia (1989)
• Um estrangeiro em casa , by Richard Démarcy (1990)

Teatro do Mundo

• A secreta família (1979)
• O guardia do rio (1980)
• Ser solidário (1981)
• Cogumelos (1981)
• A gaivota (1982)
• Ano IV DC (Calígula, by Albert Camus ) (?)
• Balanço I (?)
• Terramoto no Chile (?)

More pieces

• Fuenteovejuna , by Pedro Calderón de la Barca - Teatro Maison de la Culture de Rennes (1972)
• Liberdade, liberdade - Teatro Vilaret (1974)
• Galileu Galilei , by Bertolt Brecht - Teatro Experimental de Cascais
• A mulher do campo - Teatro da Cornucópia
• Sonho de uma noite de Verão , from Shakespeare - Teatro da Malaposta.
• A noite do palhaço , by Raúl Brandão - O Bando
• Gulliver , by Hélder Costa - A Barraca (1997)

Movies

• A Confederação , by Luís Galvão Teles (1978)
• Gente do Norte , by Leonel Brito (1977)
• O ladrão do pão , by Noémia Delgado
• Silvestre , by João César Monteiro (1982)
• Arábia (short film), by Rosa Coutinho Cabral (1982)
• Ninguém duas vezes , by Jorge Silva Melo (1985)
• Atlântida: Do Outro Lado do Espelho , by Daniel Del Negro (1985)
• Agosto , by Jorge Silva Melo (1988)
• Três menos eu , by João Canijo (1988)
• O Som da Terra a Tremer , by Rita Azevedo Gomes (1990)
• Aqui D'El Rei! (telefilme), by António-Pedro Vasconcelos (1993)
• Coitado do Jorge , by Jorge Silva Melo (1993)
• Até amanhã Mário , from Solveig Nordlund (1994)
• Rio do Ouro , by Paulo Rocha (1998)
• A raiz do coração , by Paulo Rocha (2000)
• A Espada ea Rosa , by João Nicolau (2010)

radio

• Emissores do Norte Reunidos (1961)
• TSF - Música Portuguesa com certeza (1992/1993)

Web links

Commons : José Mário Branco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• José Mário Branco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• José Mário Branco - FMI (text) ( pt ) sapo.pt. Retrieved April 16, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joana Amaral Cardoso, Lucinda Canelas, Maria Paula Barreiros: Obituário: Morreu José Mário Branco, um dos nomes maiores da canção portuguesa. In: Publico.pt . November 19, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2019 (Portuguese). 
2. ↑ On the back of the cover of the disc as well as on the two labels there was the following note: "Expressamente proibida a audição pública deste" (Eng .: It is expressly forbidden to play this record in public ). In addition, the cover had a label that had to be removed to remove the record. The label contained the inscription: "Por determinação expressa do autor fica proibida a audição pública parcial ou total desta obra" (Eng .: determined by the author, it is not permitted to perform parts or the entire work in public ).
3. ↑ Maria Cano: José Mário Branco é aluno de excelência ( pt ) July 3, 2007. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
4. ^ Nuno Pacheco: Concertos em Lisboa e no Porto - José Mário, Fausto e Sérgio "enfim juntos" em palco ( pt ) publico.pt. August 10, 2009. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
5. ↑ Chart sources: PT
6. ↑ SILVA, Octavio Fonseca. (2000). Op. cit., page 111. ( Memento from June 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Official website of Camané
8. ↑ SILVA, Octavio Fonseca. (2000). Op. cit., page 114. ( Memento from June 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ PEREIRA, Lia. (2009). "Três Cantos: José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho e Fausto no Campo Pequeno". BLITZ ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ SILVA, Octavio Fonseca. (2000). Op. cit., pp. 115-116. ( Memento from June 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ SILVA, Octavio Fonseca. (2000). Op. cit., page 116. ( Memento of June 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) or IMDb (The Internet Movie Data Base) - José Mário Branco
12. ↑ SILVA, Octavio Fonseca. (2000). Op. cit., page 116. ( Memento from June 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )