Why Chico Buarque Deserves a Nobel Prize
AQ’s music columnist looks back on the versatile Brazilian musician’s storied, six-decade career.
This article is adapted from AQ's forthcoming special report on trends to watch in Latin America in 2025. If the Swedish Academy again feels the desire to recognize literary work outside the traditional bounds (having given the Nobel Prize in Literature to U.S. singer Bob Dylan in 2016), I strongly recommend they consider Brazilian superstar songwriter, poet, and novelist Chico Buarque. Buarque, who recently turned 80, is one of the founding fathers of MPB (Música Popular Brasileira), which took the country’s popular music to new dimensions in a kaleidoscopic explosion starting in...
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