Eduardo Nascimento (26 June 1943 – 22 November 2019) was an Angolan singer, best known for his participation on behalf of
Portugal in the
1967 Eurovision Song Contest.
Nascimento was the leader of a five-member band, Os Rocks, formed in Luanda in 1962. The band travelled to
mainland Portugal in the mid-1960s, participating in song festivals and releasing a well-received
EP, "Wish I May", in 1966. In 1967, Nascimento entered the Portuguese Eurovision selection contest, the
Festival da Canção, as a solo artist with the song "
O vento mudou" ("The Wind Changed"). He won the event by a comfortable margin, and went forward to represent Portugal in the 12th
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
, held on 8 April in
Vienna, where "
O vento mudou" finished in joint 12th place of the 17 entries. With Os Rocks, Nascimento released another EP, "Don't Blame Me", in 1968, before giving up his musical career and returning to Angola in 1969.
Nascimento is notable for being the first black male performer at Eurovision, the year after
Milly Scott from the
Netherlands became the first black female to sing at the Eurovision.
Nascimento died on 22 November 2019.
References
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1944 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Angolan male singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1967
People from Luanda
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Portugal
Portuguese people of Angolan descent
20th-century Portuguese male singers