Chico Buarque de Holanda

Francisco Buarque de Holanda , more known under the diminutive Chico Buarque , is a Compositeur of songs and a Brazilian novelist . He was born the June 19th 1944 with Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

His/her father, Sergio Buarque de Holanda, is historian and receives the visit of many artists and of intellectuals of the moment. Chico Buarque grows in this environment and impregnates itself some. He belongs to the artists having brought a major revival in the Brazilian music, at the sides in particular of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil: at the end of the Years 1960, they are among the initiators of the kind called Música Popular Brasileira (MPB), resulting from fusion from the styles which surround them as the Bossa nova, the samba, the Jazz or the Rock' roll while being the support of an expression protestor vis-a-vis being able it held by the soldiers.

He studies the Architecture and the Urbanisme with the Faculty of architecture of the University of São Paulo, but gives up in fifth year, preferring to continue his musical career.

It is at the 20 years age, in 1964, which it starts to point out, while taking part in concerts of schools. One year later, it leaves its first individual: Pedro pedreiro . Little time after, in 1966, its song has bandaged makes it famous while gaining a first place ex æquo to the TV Records MPB Festival.

However its militancy and its engagement against the Dictature in place at the time him are worth prison. It ends up being exiled in Italy but returns quickly to the country in 1970 and circumvents the Censure after a fashion Brazilian authorities. Thus " Apesar of você" (In spite of You) passes through the meshs of the censure and becomes an anthem against the dictatorship. It creates and composes some of its songs under the pseudonym of Julinho da Adelaide . The majority have a success which is not contradicted with time, and are revealing of its talent: Ground viva , Apesar of você , Sonho of um carnival , Samba of Orly , Bye bye Brazil , Vai passar , etc

In 1989, its song " Essa moça your different " , recorded in 1969, will be used as sound illustration of a Publicité for a mark of soda and will make known it general public.

EM 1998, the school of samba of Rio de Janeiro, Mangueira, gains the procession of the carnival Carioca with, like topic, a homage to Chico Buarque, and on a music written by him.

Several songs of Chico Buarque had French versions and were sung by interpreters such as Claude Nougaro, Georges Moustaki, Pierre Barouh, Dalida, Frida Boccara and, more recently, Didier Sustrac and Bia Krieger, Brazilian which lives Quebec.

Chico Buarque is also writer. Some of its works, plays, musical comedies and novels, are translated into French. Its most recent book, Budapest , obtained in Brazil prestigious Prix Jabuti.

Musical work

Discography

1966

  • Chico Buarque de Holanda
  • Morte E Emptied Severina
1967
  • Chico Buarque de Holanda - vol.2
1968
  • Chico Buarque de Holanda - vol.3
  • Chico Buarque de Holanda - compacto
1969
  • Umas E outraged - compacto
  • Chico Buarque de Holanda - compacto
  • Chico Buarque Na Itália
1970
  • Apesar of você - compacto
  • Per a pugno di samba
  • Chico Buarque de Holanda - vol.4
1971
  • Construção
1972
  • Quando O carnival chegar
  • Caetano E Chico juntos E ao vivo
1973
  • Chico laid
1974
  • Sinal fechado
1975
  • Chico Buarque & Maria Bethânia ao vivo
1976
  • Drive caros amigos
1977
  • Cio da Terra compacto
  • Os saltimbancos
  • Gota of água
1978
  • Chico Buarque
1979
  • Ópera C Malandro
1980
  • Emptied
  • Show 1º of Maio compacto
1981
  • Almanaque
  • Saltimbancos trapalhões
1982
  • Chico Buarque in espanhol
1983
  • Para viver um large amor
  • O large circo místico
1984
  • Chico Buarque
1985
  • O Corsário C rei
  • Ópera C malandro
  • Malandro
1986
  • Melhores momentos of Chico & Caetano
1987
  • Francisco
1988
  • Dança da meia-lua
1989
  • Chico Buarque
1990
  • Chico Buarque ao vivo Paris the Zenith
1993
  • Paratodos
1995
  • Uma palavra
1997
  • Terra
1998
  • Ace cidades
1999
  • Chico ao Vivo
2001
  • Chico E ace cidades (DVD)
  • Cambaio
2002
  • Chico Buarque - Duetos
2003
  • Chico or O país da delicadeza perdida (DVD)
2005
  • DVD especial - ainda não lançado

Theater

  • 1965, Morte E Emptied Severina .

  • 1967 Ground viva

The part became a symbol of resistance to the dictatorship at the time of the second series of representation. A group of the commando of " Drive out with the communistes" invades the Galpão theater in São Paulo, in July 1968, attacking the artists and breaking the scene. The day following Chico Buarque came to support the group and started a movement organized in defense of Ground Viva and against the Brazilian censure.

  • 1973 Calabar

  • 1975 Gota of água

  • 1978 Ópera C malandro

The text took as a starting point the Opera of the beggars (1728) of John Gay, and of the Opera of quat' under (1928), of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.

Literary work

  • 1974 - Fazenda Modelo (new)

  • 1979 - Chapeuzinho Amarelo (deliver-poem for children)
  • 1981 - With Bordo C Rui Barbosa (written in 1963-64, published in 1981)
  • 1991 - Muddle (original title: Estorvo ) (Romance)
  • 1995 - Short-circuit (original title: Benjamin ) (Romance)
  • 2003 - Budapest (Romance)

External bond

  • Official site (in Portuguese)

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