CHICO BUARQUE


Peolple call him the poet of the present time, Chico Buarque or Francisco Buarque de Hollanda was born on June, 14th , 1944. He has a typical gemini personality, communicative, likeable, audacious, corageous and very affectionate. Son of a popular historian Sergio Buarque. That’s why since he was a child he had contact with big personalities of our culture, like Vinícius de Moraes(who became his partner later), Baden Powell and Oscar Castro.

He started his carrier on a school´ s festival in 1964. One year later he put in melody the poem ¨ Morte e Vida Severina ¨ that succeed. In the same time he was working on TV Record,. These two important events made him known in Brazil, mainly because of his music ¨a Banda“ . In the end of 60’s he launched his first LP. After some years he made a partnership with Tom Jobim, which was perfect.

His artistic production suffered a big impact from the censorship of the military regimen in 1968; Chico went to the exile in Italy, where his first daughter, Silvia was born.(He had two more daughters afterwards.)
In 1972 he acted in the filme ¨Quando o Carnaval Chegar¨. Two years later he started writing books.

In 1978 he won the Prêmio Moliere of the best theatrical author of the ¨Ópera do Malandro¨. In the same year he published his first book for children ¨O Chapeuzinho Amarelo¨.

Today he works as composer, interpret, poet and writer. Chico is gradually moving away from music to just dedicate his life to the literature. People say that he knows more about the women spirit/ thoughts than themselves. Women are so deeply that just special ones can understand their feelings, and he can do it.


Project from
Juliana Buono Françoso
Advanced 3
Teacher Nilce

Centro Britânico
Pompéia Branch