Cazuza

Cazuza is considered one of the greatest poets of the national rock. Rebelliousness and lyricism took always part of an interesting style.

He was born in Rio de Janeiro on 4th of April in 1958 with the name of Agenor Miranda de Araújo, but he was known as Cazuza by the public. In 1981 he joined the people who would become his partners . He met Roberto Frejat, Dé, Maurício Clays and Gutti Goffi (guitar, short, keyboards and battery, respectively) who were trying to find a vocalist for the band Barão Vermelho. By this time the band did not have their own songs. They played in some theaters having to divulge their work until the producer Ezequiel Days heard a demo . He showed it to Guto Grace Mello, the artistic director of Som Livre and both persuaded Cazuza’s father, João Araújo, to launch his own son. The beginning was humble. A cheap output and a disk recorded in haste that pleased the artistic class. The song "Tudo que houver nessa vida" which led this first work, was recorded afterwards by Caetano Veloso, a very famous Brazilian song writer and singer .

By this time, Cazuza started writing his own lyrics. Besides being an instigating singer, with his confirmed bisexual, rebellious attitude, he was a poet. Most of his lyrics are about suffering and passion. Rhythm as ballads , rocks , blues, and many controversial lyrics caused intense impact. In 1983 the second disk "Barão Vermelho 2" was released and 15 thousand copies were sold . The quality of the repertoire drew people´s attention to the group. The double Cazuza/Frejat was being consolidated, it was when Ney Matogrosso, a national popstar recorded their song "Pro dia nascer feliz“. Success would come later with "Bete Balanço", ordered for being the title song of the film of Lael Rodrigues, and that was recorded in a compact . It was so successful that it was included in the third album, "Maior Abandonado" and this one had around 60 thousand copies sold.

In 1985 Cazuza followed his solo career and released the album "Cazuza" that brought other partnerships besides Frejat, that continued friend and partner) with Ezequiel Snow, Leon and Reinaldo Arias. It was a new phase for Cazuza. His shows were more elaborated and the public recognized his value. However ,he already knew that he had got the Aids virus and he went to Boston, for two months for the handling with AZT. When he returned he recorded "Ideologia", which talks about the perspective of the death and social matters of the country. In the following year he was awarded with the SHARP prize as best pop-rock singer and music. The show "Ideologia", driven by Ney Matogrosso is performed all over the country, is turned into a program in the Net Globe, and is recorded . "Cazuza ao vivo, o tempo não pára" is his greatest success.

It was a national crash when Cazuza was the cover of a weekly magazine as the first public personality to assume it. Perhaps the proximity with the death led him to compose continuously. In 1989 he recorded the double album "Burguesia" that would turn out to be the last recorded musical. Cazuza died at 32 in Rio de Janeiro, in July 7th,1990.


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Gabriela Tibiriçá
Paula Kaufmann Saccheto
Progress 3
Teacher Fernanda Oliveira

Centro Britânico
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