After the funeral of Luís Represas, José Raposo resorted to his Instagram page to pay tribute to the singer and lament his departure, having retreated to his adolescence.
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25/07/2026
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O last farewell to Luís Represas happened on Friday, July 24, and José Raposo made a point of manifesting himself on social networks after the singer's funeral.
The actor retreated to his adolescence and lovingly recalled the career of Luís Represas, especially as a voice of the Trovante, and lamented his departure.
“ I grew up with the Trovante on my side. In the late '70s, in my teens, Louis' voice echoed in schools, in the streets, in the country! It was a new type of Portuguese music that emerged, with verses from great Portuguese poets and compositions with roots in Portuguese popular music”, recalled José Raposo.
“ And then, Luís was a good man, generous, always linked to noble causes ", made it a point to highlight when talking about the singer.
“ No doubt a great loss to our culture! My feelings to the family and friends”, finally said the actor in the same publication.
To remember that Luís Represas died last Wednesday, July 22, victim of lung cancer. I was 69 years old.
The singer's funeral took place on Friday, July 24, and brought together several known faces among many friends, colleagues and family.
Pedro Passos Coelho made statements to SCI News where he recalled the legacy that the singer left in the art of our country and said that the two were known.
“ It is part of our entire life, in particular those who are my age and who have deprived with it, of the time when the Trovantes grew up and marked Portuguese culture but also our lives. We often met in the bars he was having,” said the former Prime Minister.
In turn, Isaltino Morais, president of the municipality of Oeiras, knew closely the artist, to whom he nicknamed “a fantastic human being”. “He was a fantastic human being. I have some stories with him, contrary to what sometimes artists appear, he had a fantastic human dimension, he was a very simple person”, he explained.