Francisco Buarque de Hollanda is popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a singer, 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.
Son of the academic Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, Buarque lived in several locations throughout his childhood, though mostly in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Italy. He wrote and studied literature as a child and came to music through the bossa nova compositions of João Gilberto. 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, were thre
Ziraldo Alves Pinto is a Brazilian author, painter, comic creator, and journalist. He is normally known just as "Ziraldo." His books have sold about ten million copies, have been translated to many foreign languages and adapted to the theater and cinema. He and other progressive artists created the non-conformist comic newspaper "O Pasquim" during a period of military dictatorship in Brazil. His children's books have also been the basis of successful animated films and television series in Brazil. Ziraldo is father of the film director Daniela Thomas and the Golden Globe Award-nominated film score composer Antonio Pinto.
