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Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ), popularly known as Chico Buarque (), is a singer, guitarist , composer , dramatist , writer and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic and cultural commentary on Brazil and Rio de Janeiro in particular.

Son of the academic Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda , Buarque lived in several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro , São Paulo and Italy. He wrote and studied literature as a child and came to music through the bossa nova compositions of João Gilberto . He performed music throughout the 1960s as well as writing a play that was deemed dangerous by the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time. Buarque, along with several of his fellow musicians, were threatened by the government and eventually left Brazil in 1970. He moved to Italy again. However, he came back to Brazil in 1971, one year before the others, and continued to record albums, perform, and write, though much of his material was not allowed by government censors. He released several more albums in the 1980s and published three novels in the 1990s and 2000s, all of which were acclaimed critically.

Biography

Buarque came from a privileged intellectual family background& mdash;his father Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a well-known historian, sociologist and journalist and his mother Maria Amélia Cesário Alvim was a painter and pianist. He is also brother of the singer Miúcha and politician Ana de Hollanda . As a child, he was impressed by the musical style of bossa nova , specifically the work of Tom Jobim and João Gilberto . He was also interested in writing, composing his first short story at 18& nbsp;years old and studying European literature, also at a young age. One of his most consuming interests, however, was playing soccer , beginning at age four, which he still does today. Though he was born in Rio de Janeiro, Buarque spent much of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro , São Paulo and Italy.

Before becoming a musician, Buarque decided at one point to study architecture at the University of São Paulo , but this choice did not lead to a career in that field; for Buarque often skipped classes.

He made his public debut as musician and composer in 1964, rapidly building his reputation at music festivals and television variety shows when bossa nova rhythm came to light and Nara Leão recorded three of his songs. His eponymous debut album exemplified his future work, with catchy samba s characterized by inventive wordplay and an undercurrent of nostalgic tragedy. Buarque had his first hit with "A Banda" in 1966, written about a marching band, and soon released several more singles. Although playing bossa nova, during his career, samba and Música Popular Brasileira would also be widely explored. Despite that, Buarque was criticized by two of the leading musicians at the time, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as they believed his musical style was overly conservative. However, an existentially themed play that Buarque wrote and composed in 1968, Roda Viva ("Live Cycle"), was frowned upon by the military government and Buarque served a short prison sentence because of it. He left Brazil for Italy for 18 months in 1970, returning to write his first novel in 1972, which was not targeted by censors.
At this time his thinly-veiled protest single "Apesar de Você" ("In spite of You" - in reference to the military dictatorship) was also produced. ("In spite of you") was overlooked by the military censors, becoming an important anthem in the democratic movement. After selling over 100,000 copies, the single was eventually censored and removed from the market. At one point in 1974, the censors banned any song authored by Chico Buarque. Then, he created a pseudonym , naming himself "Julinho da Adelaide", complete with life history and interviews to newspapers. "Julinho da Adelaide" http://www.chicobuarque.com.br/sanatorio/abre_julinho.htm authored songs such as "Jorge Maravilha" and "Acorda amor" before he was outed in Jornal do Brasil news story. Buarque also wrote a play named Calabar , about the Dutch invasion of Brazil in the seventeenth century, drawing parallels with the military regime. Despite the censorship , songs such as "Samba de Orly" (1970), "Acorda amor" (1974, as "Julinho da Adelaide") manifested Buarque's continuing opposition to the military regime.

During the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with filmmakers, playwrights, and musicians in further protest works against the dictatorship. Buarque approached the 1983 Concert for Peace in Nicaragua as a valid forum to vocalize his strong political views. Throughout the decade, he crafted many of his songs as vehicles to describe the re-democratization of Brazil. The Concert for Peace in Nicaragua was one in a concert series known as the "Central American Peace Concerts." These concerts featured various Latin American artists. The political turmoil that plagued this era were expressed in many of Buarque's songs. He later wrote Budapeste , a novel that achieved critical national acclaim and won the Prêmio Jabuti , a Brazilian literary award comparable to the Man Booker Prize .

"Cálice"

During the Brazilian military coup of 1964 , Buarque wrote about the events which transpired and avoided censorship by using cryptic analogies and wordplay. For example, in the song "Cálice" ("Chalice", or Jesus' Last Supper "Cup"), a duet written with Gilberto Gil and performed with Milton Nascimento , http://mais.uol.com.br/view/e8h4xmy8lnu8/calice--chico-buarque-e-gilberto-gil-040266C0A14386? types=A& he takes advantage of the homophone|homophony between the Portuguese language|Portuguese imperative "shut your mouth" -- cale-se -- and "chalice" -- cálice -- to protest censorship against freedom of speech by the dictatorship, disguised as the Gospel narrative of Jesus' Gethsemani prayer to the Father to pass from Him the chalice of bloody death probation. The line "I wanna sniff diesel fume" is a reference to the death of political prisoner Stuart Angel , who had his mouth glued to a jeep's exhaust pipe during a torture session. . Futepoca . January 29, 2010. Buarque was a friend of his mother Zuzu Angel|Zuzu .

Discography

1966: Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Vol. 1)

1966: Morte e Vida Severina

1967: Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Vol. 2)

1968: Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Vol. 3)

1969: Umas e outras - compacto

1969: Chico Buarque na Itália

1970: Apesar de você

1970: Per un pugno di samba

1970: Chico Buarque de Hollanda (Vol. 4)

1971: Construção

1972: Quando o carnaval chegar

1972: Caetano e Chico juntos e ao vivo

1973: Chico canta , mildly edited by the censors of the Brazilian military government both in lyrics and title, it was originally called "Chico Canta Calabar".

1974: Sinal fechado

1975: Chico Buarque & Maria Bethânia ao vivo

1976: Meus caros amigos

1977: Cio da Terra compacto

1977: Os saltimbancos

1977: ''Gota d'água

1978: Chico Buarque (1978 album)|Chico Buarque

1979: Ópera do Malandro

1980: Vida

1980: Show 1º de Maio compacto

1981: Almanaque

1981: Saltimbancos trapalhões

1982: Chico Buarque en espanhol

1983: Para viver um grande amor

1983: O grande circo místico

1984: Chico Buarque (Vermelho)

1985: O Corsário do rei

1985: Ópera do Malandro

1985: Malandro

1986: Melhores momentos de Chico & Caetano

1987: Francisco

1988: Dança da meia-lua

1989: Chico Buarque

1990: Chico Buarque ao vivo Paris le Zenith

1993: Para Todos

1995: Uma palavra

1997: Terra

1998: As cidades

1998: Chico Buarque da Mangueira

1999: Chico ao vivo

2001: Chico e as cidades (DVD)

2001: Cambaio

2002: Chico Buarque – Duetos

2003: Chico ou o país da delicadeza perdida (DVD)

2005: Meu Caro Amigo (DVD)

2005: A Flor da Pele (DVD)

2005: Vai passar (DVD)

2005: Anos Dourados (DVD)

2005: Estação Derradeira (DVD)

2005: Bastidores (DVD)

2006: O Futebol (DVD)

2006: Romance (DVD)

2006: Uma Palavra (DVD)

2006: Carioca (CD + DVD with the documentary Desconstrução )

2007: Carioca Ao Vivo

2011: Chico

Other works

Books

1966: A Banda (Songbook)

1974: Fazenda Modelo

1979: Chapeuzinho Amarelo

1981: A Bordo do Rui Barbosa

1991: Estorvo

1995: Benjamin

2003: Budapeste

2009: Leite Derramado

Plays

1967/8: Roda Viva

1973: Calabar (coauthored with Ruy Guerra )

1975: ''Gota d'água

1978: Ópera do Malandro (based on John Gay's '' Beggar's Opera '' and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera )

1983: O Grande Circo Místico

Film

1972: Quando o carnaval chegar (coauthor)

1983: Para viver um grande amor (coauthor)

1985: Ópera do Malandro

2009: Budapeste (based on his book)

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