QUELUZ, Portugal, April 24 (Reuters) - Brazilian writer and musician Chico Buarque received on Monday the most prestigious literary award for Portuguese-language, with the ceremony happening four ...

In 1966, the late bossa nova singer Nara Leao asked Brazilian music icon Chico Buarque to write her a song about a long-suffering woman waiting on her man. Fifty-six years later, the widely loved song ...

In a scene from Federico Fellini’s (1920–1993) I Vitelloni (1953), a drunken character floats a wild idea to his friend: leave it all behind and start over in Brazil. Fueled by exoticized ...

Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his ...

With a career spanning fifty-eight years, Chico Buarque has composed 537 songs, recorded 1,302 tracks, released 50 albums (solo or collaborative, studio or live), written four plays, a novella, a book ...

Chico Buarque, the legendary 67 year-old Brazilian singer-songwriter, has released some 60 albums since his first record in 1966. In the last five years, however, the prolific sexagenarian has been… ...

Brazilian cultural icon Chico Buarque’s latest CD, Carioca, is his first album of new material since 1998, full of songs of the master writer looking back at the complexities of his birthplace, Rio de ...

Chico Buarque, bossanovista and novelist, whose latest book is 'Spilt Milk' Credit: Photo: Sipa Press / Rex Features Back in the Sixties, Brazil thrilled to a new dance beat called bossa nova. With ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. I was told that Chico Buarque could not do lunch on a Monday. That is one of the three days a week when ...

Fifty-six years later, the widely loved song, "Com Acucar, Com Afeto" (With Sugar and Affection), is at the center of a firestorm in Brazil after Buarque said he had decided to stop singing it over ...