Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, known as Chico Buarque (Rio de Janeiro, June 19, 1944) is a musician, playwright and writer in Brazil. He married and broke up with actress Marieta Severo, with whom he had three daughters, Sylvia, who is married to actress and Chico Diaz, Helena, married to percussionist Carlinhos Brown and Louise. He is the brother of singers Miúcha, Ana de Hollanda and Cristina.
Son of historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, began his career in the 1960s, especially in 1966, when he won with the song The Band, the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music. In 1969, with the increasing repression of the military dictatorship in Brazil, self-imposed exile in Italy, becoming, in return, one of the most active artists in the critical policy and the democratization of Brazil. Literary career, was winner of the Jabuti, the book Budapest, released in 2004.
In 1946, she lived in Sao Paulo, where his father had assumed the direction of Sunset Boulevard. Always showed interest in music - interest that has been strengthened by coping with intellectuals such as Vinicius de Moraes and Paulo Vanzolini.
In 1953, Sergio Buarque de Holanda was invited to teach at the University of Rome, therefore, the family moved to Italy. Chico becomes trilingual, speaking English at school and in the streets, Italian. At that time, his first "of Carnival" are composed, and with the younger sisters, Piiizinha, Cristina and Ana, staged.
Back in Brazil, produces its first newspaper in chronic Verbâmidas, College of Santa Cruz, a name created by him. His first appearance in the press was not cultural, but police published, including in the newspaper Ultima Hora, Sao Paulo. With a friend, stole a car for sightseeing by dawn Paulo, something relatively common at the time. He was arrested. "Pivetes stole a car: prisoners" was the headline the next day with a photo of two smaller with black bars on the eyes. Chico could no longer go out alone at night until he was 18 years.
Early Career
Chico Buarque came to join the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (FAU) in 1963. He attended two years stopped in 1965 when he began to devote himself to artistic career. This year, it launched Dream Carnival, I entered the National Festival of Brazilian Popular Music, transmitted by TV Excelsior, and Van Halen, music key to testing how would the verses work with meticulous stylistic morphological and politicization, more significant in the 70's. The first serious composition, Song of the Eyes, is 1961.
He met Elis Regina, who had won the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira (1965) with the song trawler, but the singer gave up writing to it due to impatience with the timidity of the composer. Chico Buarque was revealed to the public when Brazil won the same festival the following year (1966), televised Record, with The Band, played by Nara Leão (tied for first place with triggers, Geraldo Pereira). However, Zuza Homem de Mello, the book The Age of Festivals - A Parable, revealed that the band won the festival. The musicologist preserved for decades leaves the voting of the festival. There, set the music the band won the competition for 7 to 5. Chico, to realize that win, went to the chairman of the committee and said he did not accept defeat shooting. Should this happen, it would at the same time deliver the prize to the competitor.
On October 10, 1966, when the final, started the process to designate as Chico Buarque national unanimity, nickname created by Millor Fernandes.
Songs like She and her Window, 1966, begin to demonstrate the lyrical side of the composer. With the observation of society, and at various times in the service of the word window is present in his earliest songs: Joey, Januária, Carolina, The Band and Magdelene was pro Mar. The influences of Noel Rosa may be noted in Rita, 1965 , also cited in the letter, and Ismael Silva, as in speed-ranches.
Festivals of MPB in the 1960s
In the 1967 festival would also succeed with Viva, played by him and MPB-4 group - friends and interpreters of many of his songs. In 1968 he returned to win another Festival, the Third International Song Festival da TV Globo. As a composer, in partnership with Tom Jobim, the song Sabia. But this time the victory was challenged by the public, who chose the song that came second: Not to say I did not speak of flowers, Geraldo Pereira.
Participation in the Festival, with The Band, marked the first public appearance by presenting a great impact style musical movement supported in urban Rio Bossa nova, which appeared in 1957. Throughout his career, samba and MPB styles would also be widely exploited.
Soundtrack and adaptations of books
Chico participated as an actor and wrote several hit songs for the film When the Carnival arrives, Music Carlos Diegues. He composed the theme song for the film will work Tramp, Hugo Carvana - Carvana came to modify the script to use it better. Do the same with the movies that director following: If safe rascal and Tanto II. He adapted a number of songs for the film's The Saltimbancos Trapalhões the comedy group The Trapalhões and interpretations of Lucinha Lins. Other adaptations of a number of the same name by him was made for the film The Opera do Malandro, plus a movie musical. Several films that had songs-themes of his own and who have much success beyond cited: Bye Bye Brazil, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands and I love the last two with Sônia Braga. Recently, once had a cameo role in his film Ed Mort. He wrote a book that became a movie, Benjamin, which aired in theaters in 2003, with the main characters Cleo Pires Danton Melo and Paulo Jose
Theater and literature
Musicians parts Morte e Vida Severina and The Children Saltimbancos. He also wrote several plays, including Roda Viva (forbidden), Gota d'Água, Calabar (forbidden), Opera and some trickster books: Turbulence, Benjamin and Budapest.
Chico Buarque always stood out as a columnist in high school, his first book was published in 1966, brought the manuscript of the first compositions and the Ulysses story, and a chronicle of Carlos Drummond de Andrade on the Banda. In 1974 he wrote the novel model livestock farm and in 1979, Hood Yellow, a book-poem for children. The board of Rui Barbosa was written in 1963 or 1964 and published in 1981. In 1991 he published the novel Turbulence and four years later she wrote the book Benjamin. In 2004, the novel won the Budapest Jabuti Award for Best Fiction Book of the year. Officially, the minimum selling their books is 500 thousand copies in Brazil.
Television programs
Stopped participating in popular television programs, having problems with the presenter Chacrinha, which would have made a joke with the lyrics Van Halen, listening to the test. Irritated, Chico's gone and never presented in the program. The executive Boni banned any reference to Chico for the programming of TV Globo, after they both also had a melee, but not for long, since even during the '70s (and early 80's) his songs featured in the tracks several soap operas, such as Magic Mirror and the Seventh Sense. At the end of the ban several years later, Chico agreed to do a program with Caetano Veloso, which included the participation of other artists.
The criticism of Dictatorship
Threatened by the military regime in Brazil, in exile in Italy in 1969, and went to shows with Toquinho. This time had his songs even though you (referring negatively to President Emilio G. Medici) and the Goblet censored by Brazilian censorship. He adopted the pseudonym Julinho of Adelaide, with which he composed only three songs: "Brazilian Miracle", "Wake up love" and "Jorge Maravilha". In Italy Chico became friends with singer Lucio Dalla, who did the beautiful My Story, Portuguese version (1970) song Gesù Bambino (real title 4 marzo 1943), Lucio Dalla and Paola Palotino.
Returning to Brazil continued with songs denouncing the social, economic and cultural, as the famous building or fun Partido Alto. He has performed with Caetano Veloso (who also was exiled, but in England) and Maria Bethania. Had another of his songs associated with criticism of a president of Brazil. Julinho of Adelaide, in fact, was not only a pseudonym, but the way that the composer found to circumvent censorship, so relentless to see your name in the credits of a song. To complete the charade and give an air of veracity, Julinho of Adelaide came to have identity card and even to give a newspaper interview at the time.
One of the songs of Chico Buarque and criticize the dictatorship, a letter is a form of music, a letter set to music he made in honor of Augusto Boal, who lived in exile, when Brazil was still under the military dictatorship.
The song is called My Dear Friend and was directed to Boal, who was then in exile in Lisbon. The song was originally released a disc of almost the same title, called my dear friends, the year 1976
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