Chico Buarque: biography, music and books

Chico Buarque de Hollanda (1944) is a multifaceted artist: writer, composer, lyricist, playwright, singer. Intellectually and politically active, his legacy also translated a social concern and a non-collective intervention.

Winner of the Prêmio Camões 2019, Chico was the thirteenth Brazilian to receive or the first musician to be awarded in the history of the award.

Writer, lyricist, breeder: Chico is, definitely, um dos maiores nomes da classe arte Brasileira.

Biography of Chico Buarque

Origin

Francisco Buarque de Hollanda was born in Rio de Janeiro - more precisely at Maternidade São Sebastião -, not Largo do Machado, not on June 19, 1944.

He is the son of an important historian and sociologist (Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda) as a loving pianist (Maria Amélia Cesário Alvim). O casal teve sete filhos, Chico é o quarto deles.

Despite not being born Rio, he moved with his family, in 1946, when he was still little, to São Paulo because he was appointed director of the Ipiranga Museum.

He moved to the family again, after leaving the São Paulo capital, when Sérgio was invited to lecture História na Universidade de Roma in 1953.

Interest pela music

Filho de mãe pianista, with music I am always very present in the family house, which was a meeting point for musicians and intellectuals such as Vinícius de Moraes.

When he was barely five years old, Chico began to be interested in music, demonstrating his time of fascination with radio singers. Or menino partilhava seu was especially interested as irmã, Miúcha. It was next to the two more than Maria do Carmo, Cristina and Ana Maria, that he began to compor small operas even at the beginning of his adolescence.

As first criações de Chico foram carnival marches and operettas.

The first appearance of Chico as a singer, he was in a show at the Colégio Santa Cruz in 1964.

His inaugural song was commended music Tem mais samba, feita para o musical Balance of Orfeu. In 1965, Chico released or his first album and no year to follow composes for the first time for children as songs of the peça O patinho feio.

Training

In 1963 Chico entered the School of Architecture of the University of São Paulo. Three years later, he dropped out of the course and did not become an architect.

Opposition during military service

Chico was two great opponents of the military regime and used their songs to express dissatisfaction with the political orientation that had devastated the country. Muitas das vezes or precise composer use pseudonyms to escape two censors.

Persecuted without censorship, your first song that you voltou for after foi I will command, what belonging to the show Meu refrão. Boy you have other songs prevented from circulating and chegou to be raised by the DOPS (Department of Political and Social Order).

As a result of a more violent retaliation, Chico chose to go into exile in Rome, where he was born in March 1970.

Assim that he returned to Brazil, he was fiercely celebrated with friends and impressions and continued with his intellectual activity.

Literature - Chico Buarque writer

Besides being a music lover, Chico was always a voracious reader who explored Russian, Brazilian, French and German literature. O young man passed on to save his first chronicles of the non-daily student salary of Colégio Santa Cruz.

Interested in literature, Chico remains writing for a long time of his life not only song lyrics as well as fictional books.

Books published

As works published by the author são:

• Live roll (1967)
• Chapeuzinho amarelo (1970)
• Calabar (1973)
• Fazenda model (1974)
• Drop of Water (1975)
• Opera do malandro (1978)
• On board do Rui Barbosa (1981)
• Clogged (1991)
• Benjamin (1995)
• Budapest (2003)
• Spilled leite (2009)
• Or irmão alemão (2014)
• Those people (2019)

Literary Awards received

As a literary writer Chico Buarque de Hollanda receives three prêmios Jabuti: um com o livro Clogged, outro com Budapest e or last com Leite Spilled.

In 2019, he snatched the important Prêmio Camões.

Sound trilha of Morte e vida Severinaby João Cabral de Melo Neto

In 1965, Chico Buarque was responsible for music or a long poem Morte e vida Severinaby João Cabral de Melo Neto. A few received a series of positive reviews and chegou to be presented at the V Festival de Teatro Universitário de Nancy, na França.

Leia mais about the work Morte e Vida Severina, by João Cabral de Melo Neto.

Pessoal life

In 1966 Chico conheceu his future companheira e mãe das suas filhas, actress Marieta Severo, introduced by friend Hugo Carvana.

O casal, which joined for more than three decades - between 1966 and 1999 -, has three meninas: Sílvia, Helena and Luísa.

Music

Chico Buarque is the author of classics by MPB and, with an unequaled sensibility, many times he managed to print through das lyrics das suas songs os feminine sentiments, love portraits or same records of recent history country.

Some of the most consecrated songs são:

• To band
• Roda Viva
• Geni e or Zepelim
• O meu love
• Future lovers
• Meu dear friend
• Or what will be
• Mulheres of Athens
• João and Maria
• I saw you, I saw you

Political songs

In spite of você

To music In spite of você fez huge success between or public to third uma veiled criticism of the military statement e became um hino of resistance.

Surprisingly to censorship no impediu or launching of the song. Submitted later, when I had already sold more than 100,000 copies, the song was prevented from circulating since the recording machine had been dated and the disks removed from the lojas.

The music expired or tempo and ended up being re-recorded by a series of singers.

Chalice

Outra song with similar contours à In spite of você foi Chalice - even sound thermos. Written in 1973 and released five years later due to censorship, it denounced the military authority and also built a social criticism. A composition was made as a song of protest against violence and repression that assolava or country during the seventies.

Know more about the letter da music Cálice, by Chico Buarque.

Construction

Recorded in 1971, Construction It is debruça on the daily life of a civil construction worker. A letter shows or day-by-day desse homem não nomeado-um a worker assíduo and committed to his tragic destiny.

Morto due to an accident to the work, or his disappearance and faced with naturality, implying his social insignificance of him. Here is a clear desumanization It is a severe social criticism.

Find out a deep analysis of the song Construção, by Chico Buarque.

To além de Despite você, Construção and Chalice, a series of criações de Chico Buarque marks this questioning period two years of prickly pear as the composition Deus I paid, Live roll and Daily.

Love songs

Besides being a fabulous portraitist of his own time, Chico can also translate universal sentiments in words such as love, paixão, or falling in love and surrender.

João and Maria This is an example of this type of composition. Or love is portrayed from a childish olhar quase, thought as a story about fadas com princesses and cavalos. Here the eu-lyrical masculine declares all or his affection for the beloved.

With a completely different approach, but also with equally dull verses, we regret it with a song Future lovers, music created in 1993 that portrays a patient, timeless love that awaits to be matured and unzipped.

Or affectionate is resistant and overcomes all the barriers, conquers the unforeseen circumstances that two lovers intrude into life.

Assim like João and Maria and Future lovers, Chico é o nome by behind other beautiful compositions exchanged between apaixonados as O meu love, I love you and Faking of love.

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