António Calvário da Paz (born 17 October 1938) is a Portuguese singer and artist from the late 1950s and 1960s.

Life and career

Born in

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, in Africa, still as a child, he settled with his family in Portugal's southern region of

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, in Europe, where he was raised. At 18 years old he moved from

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in order to continue his formal education and pursue a career as a singer. He represented Portugal in the 1964

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, in

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, with the song "Oração" (Portuguese for "

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"). He has resided between Costa da Caparica in

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municipality, near Lisbon, where he lived with his mother who died in 2004, and

region, in southern Portugal. In 2025, over 70 past

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participants, including António Calvário, signed an open letter to the

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(EBU) demanding that Israel be banned from the contest. Other music successes of his include the songs Regresso, O Meu Chapéu, Sabor a Sal, Perdão para Nós Dois, Bom Dia, Meu Coração de Madeira, Namorados de Domingo and Mocidade Mocidade. Calvário appeared also in a number of films.

References

1938 births Living people 20th-century Portuguese male singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants {{portugal-singer-stub