Album: Chico Buarque en español
If you don't know anything about MPB (Música Popular Brasileira, Brazilian Pop Music) and don't understand Portuguese I think you will enjoy this marvelous CD featuring Chico Buarque singing in Spanish!
"Chico Buarque en español" is a very rare CD with the best of Chico Buarque songs translated into Spanish. This album makes it known to him and the reality of his country (that suffered a military coup in 1964) in Latin America. It was released on 1982.
Tracklist:
01. Que será (O que será)
02. Mar y luna (Mar e lua)
03. Geni y el Zepelín (Geni e o Zepelim)
04. A pesar de usted (Apesar de você)
05. Querido amigo (Meu caro amigo)
06. Construcción (Construção)
07. Te amo (Eu te amo)
08. Cotidiano (Cotidiano)
09. Acalanto (Acalanto para Helena)
10. Mambembe (Mambembe)
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Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better known as Chico Buarque, is a brazilian singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet. His music often includes social, economic and cultural commentary on Brazil.
The song "Mar e lua" talks quite overtly about lesbian love and is a claim against intolerance. Inspired by a true story, two women who loved, to be judged by their community decided to commit suicide, throwing themselves into a river.
"Geni e o Zepelim" tells the story of a transvestite named Genivaldo, a character in his play "Ópera do Malandro".
"Construção" The poet questioned the senselessness of society, shows the indifference to the most humble.
" ...Murió a contramano entorpeciendo el tránsito
...Murió a contramano entorpeciendo el público
...Murió a contramano entorpeciendo el sábado "
It's worth mentioning the use of the alexandrine and the end of the verses in proparoxytone.
One of the songs by Chico Buarque who criticize the dictatorship is a letter in the form of music. He made "Meu caro amigo" in honor of Augusto Boal who lived in exile, when Brazil was still under the military dictatorship.
"Apesar de você" was write in reference to the military dictatoship and Emílio Garrastazu Médici (3rd president of the military regime). This song was overlooked by the military censors, becoming an important anthem in the democratic movement.
Video: Apesar de você - Chico Buarque
Tal vez alguien se pregunte, por qué esta entrada está en inglés? Bueno, esta entrada la hice como trabajo para mi curso de inglés (Feb-2012) en un blog de cambridgelms.org que sólo quienes estaban en esa clase podían ver. Ahora la copie aquí para que no quede en el olvido.
