Mark Matos & Os Beaches's lyrics & chords

Born into a family of Azorean exiles fleeing the Salazar Dictatorship (Portugal, 1932- 1974), Mark Matos was birthed in the San Francisco Bay Area just weeks after the leftist Carnation Revolution deposed Salazar's Estado Novo. Matos was raised in the large Portuguese immigrant community in California's Bay Area and Central Valley, where his father and grandfather founded one of the Bay Area's first Portuguese marching bands and were instrumental in bringing Portuguese Fado musicians to the Bay Area. Matos' father had been drafted into Salaza...read more