the singer Jose Cid, 81, carries childhood sadnessWhich I will not discover until years later. Hey The musician was born and raised in Chamusca, Ribatejo, during World War IIIt is a conflict in which Portugal at that time, under the dictatorship of António Oliveira Salazar, remained neutral and far from the war.

This morning, Saturday the 16th. José Cid was the guest of Mafalda Castro and Edífor Mendonça on TVI’s Dois à 10 program.And I remembered that time The story of his father, Francisco Tavares, who was dealing with Nazi Germany during the reign of Hitler. “I didn’t like it at all. It was something I only found out later, but I didn’t like it at all,” Sid lamented.

This is not the first time the musician has done this He remembers his father’s dealings with the Germans during World War II. In 2019, in conversation with Fatima Lopez, José Cid spoke of his childhood days “spent in Ribatejo with the street children.”. “I played not with children of a higher social level, but with street children who were more fun,” he recalls, recalling his father’s character as “a very distant person.”

Francisco Tavares was an industrialist and owner of “a very large agricultural house in Perrada.” By marrying Fernanda Salter Cid Freire Gamero, mother of José CidThe businessman started Business that would bring him wealth at the expense of Nazi Germany.

“When he married my mother, in Ribatejo, he built a tomato concentration plant and it was delicious. He made a fortune selling tomato concentrates and some chives my mother invented to Germany during World War II.. In such a way that Tomato paste and chives were the only things Hitler asked to take with him when he had to flee“, José Cid revealed to Fátima Lopez in 2019.