José Mário Branco (José Mário Monteiro Guedes Branco, Porto, Portugal, 25 May 1942 - 19 November 2019) was a Portuguese singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer. Born in Porto, the son of primary school teachers, he became politically involved in the early 1960s. This political activity during the dictatorship in Portugal led him to seek exile in France in 1963. There he would eventually meet and collaboratring with musicians such as Sérgio Godinho and Zeca Afonso