Chico Buarque

Chico Buarque is perhaps the Brazilian songwriter who best fused literary lyrics and popular song. Discovered at the song festivals with “A Banda”, he got through the dictatorship by dodging censorship in “Apesar de Você”, “Cálice” and “Construção”, while writing sambas, waltzes and songs in a female voice of uncanny precision.

Playwright of Roda Viva and Ópera do Malandro and an award-winning novelist, he keeps the same ironic, melancholy elegance on record and on stage.