New Internationalist, October 1st, 1997
For Francisco (`Chico') Buarque de Hollanda the description multi-talented seems hopelessly inadequate. A singer, composer, dramatist and novelist, for over 30 years he has played a central role in the cultural life of Brazil while commanding adulation as a superstar of the music scene. Together with other artists of the Musica Popular Brasileira movement, he was vocal in opposition to the military regime in the 1960s and 1970s and was censored and exiled for his pains. Although acutely uncomfortable in a political role, Buarque has spent much of his career in the thick of campaigns for demo...
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