Chico Buarque

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Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque plays his guitar
Chico Buarque plays his guitar
Background information
Birth name Francisco Buarque de Hollanda
Also known as Chico Buarque
Born June 19, 1944 (1944-06-19) (age 63)
Origin Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, writer, playwright
Years active 1962-present
Website http://chicobuarque.uol.com.br

Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro), popularly known as Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer. He is best known for his music, which often comments on Brazil's social, economic and cultural reality.

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Chico Buarque came from a privileged, intellectual family background: his father Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was a well-known historian and sociologist. A studious child with a precocious interest in music and writing, Chico was impressed by bossa nova, specifically the work of João Gilberto.

The first 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 [1]. His eponymous debut album exemplified his future work, with catchy sambas characterized by inventive wordplay and an undercurrent of nostalgic tragedy. Although playing bossa nova, during his career, samba and MPB would also be widely explored.

Buarque's increasing political activism, common of artists of the MPB genre, against the Brazilian military dictatorship resulted in his arrest in 1968, and eventual self-exile to Italy in 1969. Other important musicians like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil experienced the same. Buarque returned to Brazil in 1970.

At this time his thinly-veiled protest single Apesar de Você [2](English: "Despite 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. He created an pseudonym called Julinho da Adelaide, complete with life history and interviews to newspapers. "Julinho da Adelaide" authored songs such as Jorge Maravilha and Acorda amor before he was "outed" in a Jornal do Brasil news story[3]. Buarque also wrote a play named Calabar, written about the Dutch invasion of Brazil in the seventeenth century, drawing parallels with the present-day dictatorship. [4].

Despite the censorship, songs such as Samba de Orly (Samba of Orly; 1970), Acorda Amor (Wake Up, Darling; 1974, as "Julinho da Adelaide"), and Vai Passar (It Will Pass; 1983) manifested Buarque's continuing opposition to the dictatorship.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Chico collaborated with filmmakers, playwrights, and musicians in further protest works against the dictatorship.

In 1998, the carnival samba school Mangueira adopted Chico Buarque as its annual theme, winning first prize for that year.

He later wrote another book, Budapeste, which achieved critical national acclaim and won the Prêmio Jabuti [5], a Brazilian literary award comparable to the Booker Prize.

During Brazil's military coup of 1964, Chico wrote about the events which transpired and avoided censorship by using cryptic analogies and wordplay. For example, in the song "Cálice" (English: "Goblet" or "Chalice" or "Cup" as used by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane) he takes advantage of the homophony between the Portuguese words for "shut up" (cale-se) and "goblet" (cálice) to disguise criticism of censorship and oppression as a Bible story:

Lyrics (in Portuguese)
Pai, afasta de mim esse cálice
De vinho tinto de sangue.
Como beber dessa bebida amarga
Tragar a dor, engolir a labuta.
Mesmo calada a boca, resta o peito
Silêncio na cidade não se escuta.
De que me vale ser filho da santa
Melhor seria ser filho da outra
Outra realidade menos morta
Tanta mentira, tanta força bruta.
Translation
Father, take from me this cup
of wine tinted red with blood.
How can I drink this bitter drink
Inhale the pain, swallow the drudgery.
Even if the mouth is shut, the heart still remains
Silence isn't heard in the city.
What good is it to me be a son of the saint (Female)
Better to be a son of the other (This breaks the rhyme scheme, after the final "outra" [other] the logical word would be "puta" [bitch/prostitute]).
Another reality less dead
So many lies, so much brute force.

  • "A Banda" ("The Band")
  • "À Flor da Terra" ("To the Earth-flower")
  • "O que Será ("What will be")
  • "Apesar de Você"
  • "As Vitrines" (The Windows)
  • "Basta Um Dia" ("One day is enough")
  • "Brejo da Cruz" (Cross` bog)
  • "Bye Bye, Brasil" (Bye Bye, Brazil)
  • "Carolina" (Caroline)
  • "Com Açúcar, Com Afeto" ("With Sugar, With Affection")
  • "Construção" ("Construction")
  • "Deus Lhe Pague" ("God Bless You")
  • "Cotidiano" ("Daily")
  • "Feijoada Completa" ("Complete Feijoada" - a black bean dish)
  • "Funeral de um Lavrador" ("Funeral of a tiller")
  • "Futuros Amantes" ("Future Lovers")
  • "Homenagem Ao Malandro" ("Tribute to a city slicker")
  • "Joana Francesa" ("French Joana/Jeanne") (dedicated to actress Jeanne Moreau)
  • "Meu Caro Amigo" ("My Dear Friend")
  • "Morena de Angola" (Dark skinned woman of Angola)
  • "Mulheres de Atenas" ("Women from Athens")
  • "Noite dos Mascarados" ("Night of the Masquerade")
  • "Olhos nos Olhos" (Eyes on the Eyes)
  • "Paratodos" (Has no meaning, but written as 'Para Todos' means: To All)
  • "Quem Te Viu, Quem Te Vê" (Who Saw You, Who Sees You)
  • "Roda Viva" ("In a literal translation to English: 'fuss'")
  • "Sonho de um Carnaval" ("Dream of a Carnival")
  • "Tatuagem" ("Tattoo")
  • "Teresinha" ("Little Theresa")
  • "Vai Levando" ("Carrying on")
  • "Vai Passar" ("It Will Pass")
  • "Valsinha" ("Little Waltz")

  • 1966 - A Banda (Songbook)
  • 1974 - Fazenda Modelo
  • 1979 - Chapeuzinho Amarelo (Children's Literature)
  • 1981 - À Bordo do Rui Barbosa
  • 1991 - Estorvo
  • 1995 - Benjamin
  • 2003 - Budapest

  • 1967/8 - Roda Viva
  • 1973 - Calabar (co-authored with Ruy Guerra)
  • 1975 - Gota d'água
  • 1978 - Ópera do Malandro (Based on John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Bertold Brecht's Threepenny Opera)
  • 1983 - O Grande Circo Místico

  • 1972 - Quando o carnaval chegar (Screenplay's co-author)
  • 1983 - Para viver um grande amor (Screenplay's co-author)
  • 1985 - Ópera do Malandro
  • 2000 - Estorvo (Movie based on his play for the theatre)
  • 2003 - Benjamin (Movie based on his book)

1966

1967

  • Chico Buarque de Hollanda - vol.2

1968

1969

1970

1971

  • Construção

1972

  • Quando o carnaval chegar (When Carnival Comes)
  • Caetano e Chico juntos e ao vivo(Caetano and Chico Together and it's Live)

1973

  • Chico canta (Chico Singing)

1974

  • Sinal fechado (Traffic Light Red)

1975

  • Chico Buarque & Maria Bethânia ao vivo (Chico Buarque and Maria Bethânia LIVE)

1976

  • Meus caros amigos (My Dear Friends)

1977

  • Cio da Terra compacto (Landscapes Rut)
  • Os saltimbancos (The Jugglers)
  • Gota d'água (Water Drop)

1978

  • Chico Buarque (Samambaia)

1979

  • Ópera do Malandro (A Rogue's Opera)

1980

  • Vida (Life)
  • Show 1º de Maio compacto

1981

  • Almanaque
  • Saltimbancos trapalhões (The Stooges Jugglers)

1982

  • Chico Buarque en espanhol (Chico Buarque In Spanish)

1983

  • Para viver um grande amor (To Live a Great Love)
  • O grande circo místico (The Huge Mystic Circus)

1984

  • Chico Buarque (Vermelho) (Chico Buarque - RED)

1985

  • O Corsário do rei (The Corsair Of The King)
  • Ópera do malandro (A Rogue's Opera)
  • Malandro (Rogue)

1986

  • Melhores momentos de Chico & Caetano (Best Moments of Chico & Caetano)

1987

  • Francisco

1988

  • Dança da meia-lua (Half-Moon's Dance)

1989

  • Chico Buarque

1990

  • Chico Buarque ao vivo Paris Le Zenith (Chico Buarque Live at Paris Le Zenith)

1993

  • Para Todos (To All)

1995

  • Uma palavra (One Word)

1997

  • Terra (Earth)

1998

  • As cidades (The Cities
  • Chico Buarque da Mangueira

1999

  • Chico ao Vivo (Chico LIVE)

2001

  • Chico e as cidades (DVD) (Chico And The Cities LIVE)
  • Cambaio

2002

  • Chico Buarque – Duetos (Chico Buarque - Duets)

2003

  • Chico ou o país da delicadeza perdida (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira)

2005

  • Meu Caro Amigo (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - My Dear Friend(DVD, direction by Roberto Oliveira)
  • A Flor da Pele (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira)
  • Vai passar (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - It Will Go away (Same Above)
  • Anos Dourados (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - Golden Years (Same Above)
  • Estação Derradeira (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - Derradeira Station (Same Above)
  • Bastidores (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - Behind The Scenes (Same Above)

2006

  • O Futebol (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - The Football (Same Above)
  • Romance (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - Romance (Same Above)
  • Uma Palavra (DVD, direção Roberto Oliveira) - One Word (Same Above)
  • Carioca (CD + DVD com documentário "Desconstrução", direção Bruno Natal)
  • (CD + DVD with documentary "Wraping It Up", direction By Bruno Natal)

2007

  • Carioca Ao Vivo (Recorded at "Canecão" in Rio)

  1. ^ Biography at AllMusic.com
  2. ^ Os sessenta anos de um artista: “Chico Buarque do Brasil”, Revista Fênix
  3. ^ Motta, Nelson, Noites Tropicais
  4. ^ Tempos de intolerância: Chico contra Calabar, na Revista Fênix
  5. ^ Prêmio Jabuti Official Web Site
  6. ^ Discography at AllBrazilian Music.com

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