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Construção is a studio album recorded by the Brazilian musician Chico Buarque, in 1971. It represents a great change in the manner of his artistic style. He started to create his own musical style, although surely there is the influence of bossa nova, as one can observe in the song 'Samba de Orly', composed with Toquinho and Vinicius de Moraes.
Released during military dictatorship, the album is strongly critical of that kind of government, as one can see in "Deus lhe pague", direct criticism to ditactorship, and "Samba de Orly", on the exile of politicians and artist. In this work, Chico Buarque also criticizes the way of life of the Brazilian workers, comparing them to machines in two songs: "Cotidiano" and Construção.
The album features "Olha Maria", a bittersweet song of stunning beauty also recorded and performed by its cowriter Antonio Carlos Jobim as well as Lee Ritenour, Zimbo Trio and more. Construção ranks Number 3 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest Brazilian albums of all time. The magazine also voted its title-track as the greatest Brazilian song, stating the it "is still a reference to understand a spiny period of Brazilian society". It also ranks Number 54 in the list of the 100 greatest records of the 20th century by German music magazine Spex. On September 2012, it was elected by the audience of Radio Eldorado FM, of Estadao.com e of Caderno C2+Música (both the latter belong to newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo) as the sixth best Brazilian album ever.
Construção is a song by Brazilian singer and composer Chico Buarque, recorded in 1971 for his album of the same name. The song is in Brazilian Portuguese (with a Spanish version being released later), and the lyrics always end each sentence with a Proparoxytone (a stress on the third last syllable). The musical arrangements are by the musician Rogério Duprat.
The song was made during one of the harshest times of the military dictatorship in Brazil, amid censorship and political prosecution, soon after Buarque returned from Italy where he had previously moved to due to the threat of political prosecution. The song was selected in 2009 by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest Brazilian song of all time.
The song was featured in the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.