Armando António Capelo Diniz da Gama (1 April 1954 – 17 January 2022) was a Portuguese singer-songwriter and baritone opera singer, whose physical trademark for decades was his shoulder-length jet black hair.
Gama grew up in Portuguese Angola, an overseas territory of Portugal by then, and lived there until the age of 17.
He was well-versed in performing piano and solfège, having studied them at the music conservatory in Luanda until he was a teenager.
In his decades-long music career, he sold over five million records in Portugal alone.
Gama died of pancreatic cancer at Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil in Lisbon on 17 January 2022, at the age of 67.