Nunes, along with David Zé, Urbano de Castro and many others, was a part of a group of musicians called the FAPLA-Povo Alliance who had the role to spread and divulge awareness to Angolan citizens helping a movement of revolution.

He was kidnapped and later assassinated by a group that dissolved from the MPLA during a failed attempt at a coup that took place on 27 May 1977,[2] and his music was banned from radio for more than a decade but nonetheless, Nunes is now regarded as one of Angola's most important musicians and public figures.

He later on discovered his interest in music, political consciousness, and notion of the injustice his people were facing in Sambizanga, his neighborhood, where at the age of 14 his Cape-Verdean friend Sissi Mindo taught him the basics of how to play the guitar.

[6] Nunes was involved in everything that was about cultural manifestation in Sambizanga, starting with the ephemeral "Mini-rhythm", being integrated in Kazukuta groups, namely the Turma do Bairro de Cuba, along with his uncle Zé Kimbomba diá Ngola.

They went on to attend the independence celebrations of Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Guinea-Bissau, where they would perform their songs on tours with the president, as a sort of embassy of Angolan culture, Pan-Africanism and support for other revolutions abroad.