António Sala

António Manuel Sala Mira Gomes (born in 1949) is a Portuguese radio and television presenter and journalist, as well as a singer and songwriter. He has worked in various capacities throughout his life, including as a singer, music producer and composer, journalist, radio director, radio host and television presenter. After a quite noteworthy career with the Maranata musical ensemble Life and career António Sala was born in 1949 in Vilar de Andorinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, in Northern Portugal. It was on the radio that António Sala stood out the most, making his debut in 1967, at Rádio Ribatejo and Emissores Associados de Lisboa, from where he later moved to Radiodifusão Portuguesa. At the end of the 1960s, he took his first steps in music taking advantage of his studies in choral singing. He came to prominence as a member of the Maranata, a music group founded in 1972. In 1978, he was voted announcer of the year, in what was the first of many awards he won thanks to his work as a radio presenter and director, mainly on Rádio Renascença’s “Despertar” program, which aired for 18 years. Between 1981 and 1994, with the Renascença’s “Despertar”, the morning radio show that was a popularity