Carlos do Carmo 's career thrived in the 1970s , when he released several of his most well-known songs and collaborated with a number of opponents to the Estado Novo regime , such as Fernando Tordo , Paulo de Carvalho and the poet Ary dos Santos . Following the Carnation Revolution , fado saw its place as the Portuguese national music threatened by the emergence of '' canção de intervenção '' , a term encompassing Portuguese protest songs . Fado also started to lose exposure on the radio and on television ; according to musicologist Rui Vieira Nery , Carlos do Carmo was an exception to this trend , because of his connection to " sectors of the democratic opposition " . In 1976 , in the first Festival da Canção after the revolution , the organizers of the contest tried to emulate A Song for Europe 's method of national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest . The procedure employed by their British counterparts consisted in choosing a single artist that would perform all the songs in the contest . Carlos do Carmo was chosen as the only singer of that year 's Festival da Canção and the winner of the contest was the song " Uma flor de verde pinho " . Later that year , he represented his country at the Eurovision Song Contest , in which he placed 12th
Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Carlos do Carmo