Chico Buarque: '70s

Buarque was a master wordsmith and stylistic chameleon who could sound like he was heading to carnival one minute and wooing a beach beauty the next. In ‘70s Brazil, he put that versatility to work, slipping political messages past the dictatorship's censors, wrapping them in mustachioed cool, acoustic guitar and faded bell-bottoms. And when the government caught on, he changed his name.