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Chico Cesar, 2008
"...In recent years, the diminutive Chico Cesar has emerged as one of Brazil's leading songwriters and social critics, taking up the mantle of women's rights, the homeless, and countless other causes in his compositions and music videos. He is the youngest of seven children from a poor family in the town of Catole do Rocha in the Northeastern state of Paraíba. It is a region so poor that many children won't reach their fifth birthdays, let alone have access to education. In Brazil, education is a privilege, not a right - and as a result, many of Brazil's children have no access to schools. Cesar's parents are poor uneducated farm laborers, but they were able to get young Chico a scholarship to a boarding school run by German nuns who had fled Europe during World War II. By the age of three he had learned to read, and by 12, he composed his first song - a composition that earned him his first guitar by finishing in fourth place in a regional musical competition. Fifteen years ago, after earning a degree in journalism, Cesar moved to São Paulo...."
Tom Nascimento, 2009
Tom Nascimento is a singer, instrumentalist and composer from Belo Horizonte ( Mina Gerais )
The Vocal Sisters
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