Musician Rui Mingas dies – Angola News

2024-01-04 15:13:31

News from Angola – Angolan musician and composer Rui Mingas died this Thursday, in Lisbon, victim of illness, NA found.

At 84 years of age, the author and composer of the vocal song to the National Anthem of Angola and the great success Os Menos do Huambo, composed poems by Angolan nationalists such as Viriato da Cruz, Agostinho Neto, Mário António and António Jacinto.

Born in Ingombota in Luanda, Rui Mingas is an Angolan singer, composer, diplomat and politician. Having stood out in national and international athletics in the 1950s and 1960s, having competed in the high jump and 110 m hurdles, at Sport Lisboa and Benfica, being the record holder in the high jump in July 1960.