PERFIL: Chico Buarque

Talk about Chico for me is great, cus he is one of my favorites compouser and brazilian singer ever. Most of us, brazilian, grown up listening him...so i hope you guys enjoy it!!!

Son of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, a leading historian and journalist and Maria Amelia Cesario Alvim.In 1946, he moved to Sao Paulo, where his father had assumed the direction of Ipiranga Museum. Always showed interest in music - an interest that has been strengthened by his association with intellectuals such as Vinicius de Moraes and Paulo Vanzolini.

In 1953, Sergio Buarque de Holanda was invited to teach at the University of Rome, therefore, the family moved to Italy. Chico becomes trilingual, speaking English at school and in the streets, Italian. At that time, his first "Carnival songs" are composed, and with the younger sisters, Piiizinha, Cristina and Ana, staged.

Back in Brazil, produces its first chronic in the newspaper Verbâmidas of Santa Cruz college, a name coined by him. His first appearance in print was not cultural, but police, published even in the newspaper Ultima Hora, Sao Paulo. With a friend, stole a car for sightseeing by dawn Paulo, something relatively common at the time. He was arrested. "Incense stole a car: prisoners" was the headline the next day with a photo of two smaller with black bars on the eyes. Chico could no longer go out alone at night until he was 18 years.



Career Gateway
Chico Buarque came to enroll in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (FAU) in 1963. He attended two years and stopped in 1965 when he began to devote himself to his artistic career. This year, it launched Sonho de Carnaval, entered the First National Festival of Brazilian Popular Music, televised Excelsor, and Peter Mason, music key to testing how he would work the verses, with strict morphological and stylistic work
politicization, more significant at the 70. The first serious composition, Cancao dos Olhos, is 1961.

Met Elis Regina, who had won the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music (1965) with the song Arrastao, but the singer gave up writing to it due to impatience with the timidity of the composer. Chico Buarque was revealed to the public when won the same festival the following year (1966), broadcast by TV Record, with A Banda, played by Nara Leão (tied for first place with Triggered by Geraldo Vandré). However, De Mello, in his book A era dos festivais - A Parable, revealed that the band won the festival. The musicologist preserved for decades the ballots of the festival. There, they set the music, the band won the competition by 7-5. Chico, to see who would win, went to the chairman of the committee and said he did not accept the defeat of Disparada. Should this happen, it would at the same time handing the award to the bidder.


On October 10, 1966, the date of the final, started the process to designate national unanimity as Chico Buarque, a nickname created by Millor Fernandes.

Songs like Ela e sua janela, 1966, begin to demonstrate the lyrical side of the composer. With the observation of society, and at various times that citation of the word window is present in her first songs: Juca, Januaria, Carolina, A banda, Madalena foi pro mar went to Noel's influences can be noted in Rita, 1965 , quoted also in the letter, and Ismael Silva-ranches and in marches.


MPB Festivals in 1960
At the 1967 festival would also succeed with Roda Viva, played by him and MPB-4 group - friends and interpreters of many of their songs. In 1968 he returned to win another Festival, the Third International Song Festival of TV Globo. As a composer, in partnership with Tom Jobim, the song knew. But this time the victory was challenged by the public, who chose the song that came second: Pra nao dizer que nao falei das flores, Geraldo Vandré.

Participation in the Festival, with The Band, marked the first public appearance by presenting a great impact on the musical movement style supported urban Rio's bossa nova, appeared in 1957. Throughout his career, samba and MPB styles would also be widely exploited.

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2 comments:

probidadcuba said...

Hola, he utilizado una imagen puesta por usted en su blog. Muchas gracias
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Anonymous said...

Eu cuido de blogue e sei como é difícil fazer uma postagem boa e com palavras que ficam
simples de entender. Gostei da sua forma de grafar e também é certo que prosseguirei voltar cá.