Biografía:
Rio de Janeiro, 1944 Singer, songwroter, novelist and musical maven Francisco Buarque de Holanda belongs to a family of renowned researchers and sages. His father was historian Sergio Buarque de Holanda; his mother was a piano aficionado named Maria Amelia. When he was only two years old, the family moved out of Rio and settled down in Sao Paolo. Chico's work comprises one of Brazil's solidest and most appreciated of all as the maestro makes a harmonic combination of such traditional rhythms as samba and bossa-nova with his profound knowledge of pop music and jazz. Nevertheless, he worked his way up the ladder. He first won the Third Brazilian Popular Music Festival when he was just 23. Almost immediately a new stage in Chico's work marked by protest and political-themed songs popped up. His play entitled "Roda Viva" got its onstage presentation in 1968 and caused him exile time in Italy between 1969 and 1970. In 1971, his magnificent LP entitled "Construção" gave him the recognition of all songwriters in Hispanic America and soon became a chart topper in Europe and in the Americas. He was soon commissioned to write the musical scores of several movies like "Quando o carnaval cegar" and "Vai trabalhr, vagabundo". Some of his major world-known LPs include "Meus Caros Amigos" (1976), the musical score for the movie "Dona Flor e seus dois maridos" and "Ópera do Malandro" (1978). Since the 1980s, Chico has also been a celebrated novelist, poet and playwright following the publication of his first book in 1979 "O Chapeuzinho Amarelo",illustrated by Danteli Berlandis. In 1992, he wrote his first novel entitled "Estorvo", followed by "Benjamín" in 1995.
