[1] Having begun his direction towards music at an early age, he was strongly influenced by his uncle Liceu Vieira Dias and his brother Ruy.
[2][3][4] His first album was "Coisas da Vida", considered to be an important mark in Angolan popular music, mixing jazz, rock, and semba.
[6] By the 1970s, he began associating with artists such as Filipe Mukenga and Waldemar Bastos, both of whom strongly influenced him, primarily through the adoption of dissonance.
[5] After he returned to Angola, he became the vice-minister of Education and Culture, a period in which he organized the Society of Angolan Authors (SAA), the conglomeration of smaller and larger educational institutes in order to better sponsor contemporary art in Angola.
[5] As an architect, he was against the large-scale real estate speculation that affected the province of Luanda beginning in the 1990s, becoming an especially strong critic of the demolition of the old Quinaxixe Market.