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| birth_name = André Vieira Dias Rodrigues Mingas Júnior
| birth_date = {{birth date|1950|5|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Luanda]], [[Portuguese Angola]] (modern-day [[Angola]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|10|11|1950|5|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]
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'''André Vieira Dias Rodrigues Mingas Júnior''', also known by his artistic name '''André Gasmin''' (24 May 1950 – 11 October 2011), was an Angolan musician, architect, urbanist, professor, and politician.
== Biography ==
Mingas was born on 24 May 1950 in Luanda, the son of André "Mongone" Rodrigues Mingas and Antónia Diniz de Aniceto Vieira Dias.<ref name="Peres">{{Cite book |last=Fátima d'Alva Penha Salvaterra Peres |title=A Revolta Activa - Os conflitos identitários no contexto de luta de Libertação Nacional |date=31 March 2010 |publisher=Universidade NOVA de Lisboa}}</ref> Some of his other siblings were also prominent figures in Angolan history, namely politician, singer, and composer of the Angolan national anthem [[Ruy Mingas]], linguist and investigator [[Amélia Mingas]], athlete and administrator Júlia Rodrigues Mingas, police commander José "Zé" Rodrigues Mingas, and economist, writer, and politician [[Saíde Mingas]].<ref name="Peres" />
Having begun his direction towards music at an early age, he was strongly influenced by his uncle [[Liceu Vieira Dias]] and his brother Ruy.<ref name="RTP">{{cite web|url=https://www.rtp.pt/rtpmemoria/gramofone/ruy-mingas-por-joao-carlos-callixto_1000|title=Ruy Mingas por João Carlos Callixto: 18 Jan 1971 - "Makesu"|publisher=RTP|access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="LEA 20192">{{cite web|url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4.|title=André Mingas|publisher=LEA|date=20 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=O Ritmo do Ngola Ritmos|url= Popular de Angola|access-date=30 April 2024|language=pt-BR}}</ref> His first album was "Coisas da Vida", considered to be an important mark in Angolan popular music, mixing jazz, rock, and [[semba]]. Through this he also became a pioneer of the semba-jazz subgenre.<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref> Highlights of the album include "Esperança", "Mufete" e "Chipalepa".<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 October 2011 |title=Restos mortais de André Mingas foram a enterrar |url=https://www.radioecclesia.org/angola/cultura/6443-restos-mortais-de-andre-mingas-foram-a-enterrar |publisher=Rádio Ecclesia}}</ref>
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 [[Consonance and dissonance|dissonance]].<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref>
After the independence of Angola, he became one of the founders of the Angolan Artists' Union.<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref> He graduated from [[Agostinho Neto University]] with a degree in architecture and later earned a masters' degree in architecture and urbanism from the [[Technical University of Lisbon]]. In Portugal, he became a professor of architecture at the [[Universidade Lusófona]] in Lisbon.<ref name="LEA 2019" />
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.<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Club K 11-10-2011">{{Cite web |date=11 October 2011 |title=Morreu André Mingas |url=https://www.club-k.net/index.php?op...rreu-andre-mingas&catid=2&lang=pt&Itemid=1069 |publisher=Club K}}</ref> Despite this, he was assigned, in 2006, to lead the reevaluation of the structural integrity of buildings in various neighborhoods around Luanda, as well as becoming responsible for the expansion of the neighborhoods of [[Talatona]] and [[Belas, Luanda|Belas]].<ref name="Club K 11-10-2011" /><ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref>
On 12 October 2006, president [[José Eduardo dos Santos]] named him as secretary of Local Subjects of the Presidency of Angola.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=12 October 2006 |title=Despacho nº 64/06 |url=http://bibliotecaterra.angonet.org/sites/default/files/deaa5f1.pdf |journal=Diário da República |issue=9440}}</ref> He was later named the Angolan consul in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]. He was already in the city, but died before he could assume the position on 11 October 2011.<ref name="Club K 11-10-2011" />
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:1950 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:Musicians from Luanda]]
[[Category:Technical University of Lisbon alumni]]
[[Category:Agostinho Neto University alumni]]
[[Category:Angolan architects]]
[[Category:Semba singers]]
[[Category:Angolan educators]]
[[Category:20th-century Angolan male singers]]
[[Category:20th-century Angolan politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Angolan politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Angolan singers]]
[[Category:Angolan diplomats]]
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{{under construction}}
{{Infobox person
| name = André Mingas
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| alias =
| birth_name = André Vieira Dias Rodrigues Mingas Júnior
| birth_date = {{birth date|1950|5|24|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Luanda]], [[Portuguese Angola]] (modern-day [[Angola]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|10|11|1950|5|24|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]
| nationality =
| alma_mater =
| occupation = {{ubl| Musician | architect | diplomat | professor }}
| years_active =
| net_worth =
| boards =
| spouse =
| children =
| parents =
}}
'''André Vieira Dias Rodrigues Mingas Júnior''', also known by his artistic name '''André Gasmin''' (24 May 1950 – 11 October 2011), was an Angolan musician, architect, urbanist, professor, and politician.
== Biography ==
Mingas was born on 24 May 1950 in Luanda, the son of André "Mongone" Rodrigues Mingas and Antónia Diniz de Aniceto Vieira Dias.<ref name="Peres">{{Cite book |last=Fátima d'Alva Penha Salvaterra Peres |title=A Revolta Activa - Os conflitos identitários no contexto de luta de Libertação Nacional |date=31 March 2010 |publisher=Universidade NOVA de Lisboa}}</ref> Some of his other siblings were also prominent figures in Angolan history, namely politician, singer, and composer of the Angolan national anthem [[Ruy Mingas]], linguist and investigator [[Amélia Mingas]], athlete and administrator Júlia Rodrigues Mingas, police commander José "Zé" Rodrigues Mingas, and economist, writer, and politician [[Saíde Mingas]].<ref name="Peres" />
Having begun his direction towards music at an early age, he was strongly influenced by his uncle [[Liceu Vieira Dias]] and his brother Ruy.<ref name="RTP">{{cite web|url=https://www.rtp.pt/rtpmemoria/gramofone/ruy-mingas-por-joao-carlos-callixto_1000|title=Ruy Mingas por João Carlos Callixto: 18 Jan 1971 - "Makesu"|publisher=RTP|access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="LEA 20192">{{cite web|url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4.|title=André Mingas|publisher=LEA|date=20 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=O Ritmo do Ngola Ritmos|url= Popular de Angola|access-date=30 April 2024|language=pt-BR}}</ref> His first album was "Coisas da Vida", considered to be an important mark in Angolan popular music, mixing jazz, rock, and [[semba]]. Through this he also became a pioneer of the semba-jazz subgenre.<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref> Highlights of the album include "Esperança", "Mufete" e "Chipalepa".<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 October 2011 |title=Restos mortais de André Mingas foram a enterrar |url=https://www.radioecclesia.org/angola/cultura/6443-restos-mortais-de-andre-mingas-foram-a-enterrar |publisher=Rádio Ecclesia}}</ref>
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 [[Consonance and dissonance|dissonance]].<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref>
After the independence of Angola, he became one of the founders of the Angolan Artists' Union.<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref> He graduated from [[Agostinho Neto University]] with a degree in architecture and later earned a masters' degree in architecture and urbanism from the [[Technical University of Lisbon]]. In Portugal, he became a professor of architecture at the [[Universidade Lusófona]] in Lisbon.<ref name="LEA 2019" />
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.<ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref>
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.<ref name="Club K 11-10-2011">{{Cite web |date=11 October 2011 |title=Morreu André Mingas |url=https://www.club-k.net/index.php?op...rreu-andre-mingas&catid=2&lang=pt&Itemid=1069 |publisher=Club K}}</ref> Despite this, he was assigned, in 2006, to lead the reevaluation of the structural integrity of buildings in various neighborhoods around Luanda, as well as becoming responsible for the expansion of the neighborhoods of [[Talatona]] and [[Belas, Luanda|Belas]].<ref name="Club K 11-10-2011" /><ref name="LEA 2019">{{Cite web |date=20 May 2019 |title=André Mingas |url=https://lea.co.ao/artista.php?a=NDI4. |publisher=LEA}}</ref>
On 12 October 2006, president [[José Eduardo dos Santos]] named him as secretary of Local Subjects of the Presidency of Angola.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=12 October 2006 |title=Despacho nº 64/06 |url=http://bibliotecaterra.angonet.org/sites/default/files/deaa5f1.pdf |journal=Diário da República |issue=9440}}</ref> He was later named the Angolan consul in [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]. He was already in the city, but died before he could assume the position on 11 October 2011.<ref name="Club K 11-10-2011" />
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:1950 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:Musicians from Luanda]]
[[Category:Technical University of Lisbon alumni]]
[[Category:Agostinho Neto University alumni]]
[[Category:Angolan architects]]
[[Category:Semba singers]]
[[Category:Angolan educators]]
[[Category:20th-century Angolan male singers]]
[[Category:20th-century Angolan politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Angolan politicians]]
[[Category:21st-century Angolan singers]]
[[Category:Angolan diplomats]]
Okumaya devam et...