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Chico Buarque

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About Me

Eu nao sou o Chico Buarque, somente sou um fan!
Im not Chico Buarque, im only a fan!
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Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, and writer. He was born in June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is best known for his music, however, which often comments on Brazil's social, economic and cultural reality.
The son of an academic, Buarque wrote and studied literature as a child and came to music through the bossa nova compositions of João Gilberto. He lived in several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in São Paulo and Italy. 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, including Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were threatened by the government and eventually left Brazil in 1970. Buarque moved back to Italy, Veloso and Gil to London. He came back to Brazil in 1971, a 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.

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Member Since: 19/04/2008
Band Website: http://www.chicobuarque.com.br/
Record Label: Unknown Major
Type of Label: Major

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