Chico Buarque
Chico Buarque
Francisco "Chico" Buarque de Hollanda, popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic and cultural commentary on Brazil and Rio de Janeiro in particular...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionWorld Music Singer
Date of Birth19 June 1944
CountryBrazil
entangled music
Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.
music people
Most people know my music but will never read my books.
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Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.
drive rio time
Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
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Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
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Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.