The musician José Cid celebrates his 85th birthday at the concert “Young at 80”, on February 4, 2027, in Campo Pequeno, in Lisbon, announced today the organization.
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10/11/2026
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José Cid
O concert will feature a band of seven musicians and guests, including Quartet 1111, of which José Cid was part and that recorded hits as “Lenda d’el Rei D. Sebastião”, and also Marisa Liz, Mário Mata and DJ Paulino Coelho.
The lineup will include “An Old Silly Song”, the most recent single of the musician, who will be part of his next album, “Young at 80”, scheduled for 2027.
Winner of the Outstanding Song Award, in 1971, at the Tokyo International Festival, with the song of his authorship “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, Cid was born on February 4, 1942, in the Chamusca do Ribatejo, in a family with links to music, having taken the first steps at the age of 14, in Coimbra, in the band Babies.
As a singer he was part of the Orpheão Académico de Coimbra, in 1958, having been a companion, among others, of José Niza (electric guitar), Proença de Carvalho (contrabass), Rui Resurrection (teclist) and Joaquim Caixeiro (batista).
In 1962, he moved to Lisbon and debuted on television screens playing his compositions in accordion, next to Viola Fernando Alvim.
In 1965, it was part of the Mystery Set, followed by Quartet 1111, whose first album came out in 1967.
With a career of more than 60 years and several collaborations, José Cid has the name associated with the Plexus group and the authorship of songs for contorts such as Tonicha and Perdigão Lusitano.
He played at the Vilar de Mouros Festival in 1971, formed the Green Windows, won the Song Festival in 1980, with “A Great, Great Love”, with which he won the 7th place at the Eurovision Festival in The Hague.
According to the “Encyclopedia of Music in Portugal in the 20th century” (2010), José Cid “is one of the most influential musicians in the world of popular music in Portugal since the late 1960s”.