The special song this week is called "Vai Passar" by Chico Buarque de Holanda (1984).
Some brasilian ladies have declared that they would not be able to stand in the same room as him without fainting...
True enough it's a lot of awesomeness for a single man. Talented composer, singer, writer, director... and footballer, dedicated family man , it is said that you can spot him regularly strolling with grandchildren in pushchair on Leblon beach sidewalk in Rio where he comes from, and relentless fighter for human rights in dark dictature times.
"Vai passar"not only manages to be a fantastic song really representative of the samba rythm used during the carnival . It was also a very subtle denunciation of the regimes of the past which disgraced themselves in slave trade, and of the dictature in power when he wrote this song in the 80s . As often in Brazil , answer to hardship was the creation of Carnival and of this fantastic song.
Under this link song and english translation and a few images I leave at your appreciation ....
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