José Afonso
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929-08-02
- Died
- 1987-02-23
- Works
- 8
Top works
- 2005 - Past Meets Present in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- 2005
- Uncovering Early Galaxy Evolution in the ALMA and JWST Era (IAU S352)
- Manuel du Fleuriste -2e édition
- Manuel du Fleuriste -2e édition
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 29,927
- Total plays
- 797,582
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José Manuel Cerqueira Afonso dos Santos, known as José Afonso, Zeca Afonso or just Zeca (2 August 1929 – 23 February 1987), was born in Aveiro, Portugal. Zeca is among the most influential folk and political musicians in Portuguese history. He became an icon among Portuguese left-wing activists due to the role of his music in the resistance against the dictatorial regime of Oliveira Salazar, resistance that triumphed in 1974 with the pro-democratic leftist military coup of the Carnation Revoluti
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,535x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
- Efficient pseudopotentials for plane-wave calculations
· 1991 · cited 15,075x
- trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses
· 2009 · cited 11,926x
- 2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2016 · cited 11,017x
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Key dates
- Born
- 2 August 1929
- Died
- 23 February 1987
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Aveiro
- Place of death
- Setúbal
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- University of Coimbra
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Genre
- protest song
- Instrument
- voice
Connections
Categories
1929 births1987 deaths20th-century Portuguese male singers20th-century Portuguese poetsCounterculture of the 1960sCounterculture of the 1970sCulture in CoimbraDeaths from motor neuron diseaseMusicians from CoimbraNeurological disease deaths in PortugalPeople from Aveiro, PortugalPortuguese anti-fascists