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Chico Buarque

Brazil could be a dangerous place in the 1960s, especially for intellectuals and dissidents. Singer, guitarist, composer, writer, playright and poet Chico Buarque ticked all the undesirable boxes as far as Brazil's military dictatorship was concerned and his work became a target for their interest which eventually led to him serving a short jail sentence. He left the country in 1970 to live in Italy for 18 months and upon his return Buarque recorded the song 'Apesar de Você' ('In Spite of You'), a thinly-veiled protest song which upon release was somehow overlooked by the miltary...