Geraldo Vandré is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian singer, composer and guitar player.

In 1966 his song Disparada (Gone Off), interpreted by Jair Rodrigues

Jair Rodrigues

Jair Rodrigues de Oliveira is a Brazilian musician and singer, a pioneer of the funk in the country. He is the father of Luciana Mello and Jair Oliveira, who also followed in his footsteps and became musicians....

, was a success at the Record Festival. The song rose to number one, tied with Chico Buarque

Chico Buarque

Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...

's "A banda".

In 1968 Vandre entered his song Pra não dizer que não falei das flores

Pra não dizer que não falei das flores

"Pra não dizer que não falei das flores" , also known as "Caminhando" , is a song composed by Geraldo Vandré that ranked second on the Festival Internacional da Canção in 1968...

 (also known as Caminhando (Walking)) in the International Song Festival. The song had the following refrain:

Come, let's go

'Cause to wait is not to know

Those who know choose the time

They don't wait for it to happen

This was thought to be a call to fight the dictatorship

Dictatorship

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 in charge. The song lost to Sabia by Chico Buarque and Tom Jobim. Also in 1968, still with the AI-5

AI-5

The Ato Institucional Número Cinco – AI-5 was the fifth of seventeen major decrees issued by the military dictatorship in the years following the 1964 coup d'état in Brazil...

, Vandre had to go into exile

Exile

Exile means to be away from one's home , while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return...

. The first artist ever to sing Caminhando after censorship's lift was Simone

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, better known as Simone, is a Brazilian singer and a major performer of Música Popular Brasileira who has recorded more than 31 albums.-Biography:...

  in 1979, reaching enormous success from both public and critics.

First he stayed at the farm of the late Guimarães Rosa, who had died the previous year, then he proceeded to Chile

Chile

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, and finally to France

France

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.

Since returning to Brazil in 1973, Vandré has been living and composing in São Paulo

São Paulo

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. He discounts rumors that he has been tortured, saying that the image of "Che Guevara

Che Guevara

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" singer stifles his workmanship. One of his recent songs has been Fabiana

Fabiana

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, written in honor of the Brazilian Air Force

Brazilian Air Force

The Brazilian Air Force is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services. The FAB was formed when the Army and Navy air branch were merged into a single military force initially called "National Air Forces"...

 (Força Aérea Brasileira - FAB) and presented at the São Paulo Municipal Library some time in the 1990s.

Discography

• 1964: Geraldo Vandré
• 1965: Hora de Lutar
• 1966: 5 Anos de canção
• 1968: Canto Geral
• 1973: Das Terras de Benvirá