Look at the chemistry between them!
Roberta Sá & Chico – Mambembe
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The Construction of Chico Buarque
One of Chico’s most famous songs is Construção (Construction), in which he literally constructs a song that works on many levels due to the fact that each line can be cut in half and mixed with the ending of another line (it is also “proparoxítona”…see comments). At the bottom, there is a beautifully written duet he wrote which he sings with Nara Leão called Com Açúcar, Com Afeto (With Sugar, With Affection)
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, and writer. He is best known for his music, however, which often comments on Brazil’s social, economic and cultural reality.
The son of an academic (Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda), Buarque wrote and studied literature as a child and came to music through the bossa nova compositions of João Gilberto. He lived in several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in São Paulo and Italy. He performed music throughout the 1960s as well as writing a play that was deemed dangerous by the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time. Buarque, along with several of his fellow musicians, including Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were threatened by the government and eventually left Brazil in 1970. Buarque moved back to Italy, Veloso and Gil to London. He came back to Brazil in 1971, a year before the others, and continued to record albums, perform, and write, though much of his material was not allowed by government censors. He released several more albums in the 1980s and published three novels in the 1990s and 2000s, all of which were acclaimed critically.
Márcio Faraco – Smooth Vocals & Innovative Style
Márcio Faraco is a Brazilian born singer, composer, producer and guitar player. After many years of living and working in Brazil, Faraco decided to leave the country for Paris, France where he has lived, with his wife, ever since. He has released four albums since living there.
“Influenced by Brazilian masters Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, João Gilberto, and Caetano Veloso, Faraco goes one step further and brings in his innovative style to Brazilian samba, baião, and toada. With his smooth vocals and sometimes even reminiscing of his idols, Faraco’s voice is refreshing.” – From Musicabrasileira.org
I strongly recommend any one of his albums as they are all great (I own all of them).
Here’s a guy on Youtube doing one of Márcio’s beautifully written songs (and title of his 1st solo album) which is also one of my favorites, called Ciranda (circle dance).
Portuguese
Ciranda – Márcio Faraco
Se tento correr o tempo pára
Se páro pra ver o mundo anda
Ele vem bater na minha cara
A vida é sempre essa ciranda
Se a noite me traz uma tristeza
O dia vem cheio de alegria
O que falo agora com certeza
Há pouco não sei se eu diria
Eu quero gritar ninguém me escuta
Está tudo preso na garganta
Às vezes me cansa tanta luta
E é pra não chorar que a gente canta
A gente canta
A gente canta
Eu vi uma luz no fim do túnel
Enchi de esperança o coração
A luz que lá estava foi chegando
Era um trem carregado de ilusão
Andando só na corda bamba
Não temo o futuro da nação
A gente que sempre dançou samba
Enfrenta qualquer divisão
A gente canta
A gente canta
English
Circle Dance
If I try to run, the world stops
If I stop to see, the world goes
It comes and hits me in my face
Life is always like a circle dance
If the night brings me sadness
The day comes full of happiness
What I say now with confidence
I don’t know if I would say later
I want to scream, no one listens
Everything is stuck in my throat
Sometimes I tire of so much fighting
We sing so that we don’t have to cry
We sing
We sing
I saw a light at the end of the tunnel
It filled my heart with hope
The light that was there was now arriving
It was a train full of illusions
Only walking on a tight-rope
I don’t fear the future of the nation
We that always danced the samba
Can face any kind of division
We sing
We sing
Cálice – Humming Against the Dictatorship
Cálice (Chalice) is a song by Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil, two famous Brazilian singer-songwriters. The song which was written and first sung in 1973 was poetically calling for an end to the Military Dictatorship in Brazil that lasted from 1964-1985. Aside from silencing many voices of the time, it mirrored the brutality of Argentina’s dictatorship, albeit on a slightly smaller scale.
Chico Buarque fled the country from 1969-1970, taking refuge in Italy, where he had lived shortly with his family in the 1950′s. In the video below, Cálice is being sung by Chico and Gil in São Paulo. They were forbidden however from actually singing the “subverse” lyrics, so they did the next best thing and hummed the majority of the song. You can hear the crowd’s reaction whenever the singers dare to recite a line or two. This ultimately results in someone disconnecting Chico’s microphone, to which he is heard protesting towards the end of the song. The second video is the song with its original lyrics, sung by Chico and Milton Nascimento.
