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Aldir Blanc ( born Aldir Blanc ___MASK80___ , on September 2 , 1946 ) is a Brazilian author ___MASK72___ crônicas ( journalistic vignettes , chronicles ) and lyricist . He co - composed many songs with singer - songwriter João Bosco , guitarist Guinga , and others . Elis Regina recorded several ___MASK72___ his songs , most notably `` O bêbado e a equilibrista '' . Another song ___MASK72___ his is `` Resposta ao tempo '' ( with lyrics by Cristovão Bastos ) , a ballad that became one ___MASK72___ Nana Caymmi ' s most famous songs , and which was recorded by many other musicians thereafter , amongst them Milton Nascimento and Aldir Blanc himself . Blanc ' s work 1972 - 1987 was analyzed by Prof . Charles A . Perrone in Masters ___MASK72___ Contemporary Brazilian Song MPB 1965 - 1985 ( U Texas P , 1989 ) . Guinga ( Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar ) ( born June 10 , 1950 ) is a Brazilian guitarist and composer born in ___MASK44___ , a working - class suburb ___MASK72___ ___MASK4___ . As a child , he was nicknamed " Gringo ", because ___MASK72___ his pale skin , and the artistic name " Guinga " comes from the way he pronounced the word . ___MASK4___ (" River of January "), or simply Rio , is the second - most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth - most populous in the Americas . The metropolis is anchor to the ___MASK4___ metropolitan area , the second - most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and sixth - most populous in the Americas . ___MASK4___ is the capital of the state of ___MASK4___ , Brazil ' s third - most populous state . Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site , named "" ___MASK4___ : Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea "", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape . This movement has produced and today is represented by many renowned Brazilian artists , such as Jorge Ben Jor , Novos Baianos , ___MASK1___ Buarque and Dominguinhos , whose individual styles generated their own trends within the genre . The term often also is used to describe any kind ___MASK72___ music with Brazilian origins and " voice and guitar style " that arose in the late 1960s . ___MASK89___ , officially the Federative Republic ___MASK72___ ___MASK89___ , is the largest country in both ___MASK85___ and Latin America . As the world ' s fifth - largest country by both area and population , it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas . Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east , ___MASK89___ has a coastline ___MASK72___ . It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47 . 3 % ___MASK72___ the continent ' s land area . Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest , home to diverse wildlife , a variety ___MASK72___ ecological systems , and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats . This unique environmental heritage makes ___MASK89___ one ___MASK72___ 17 megadiverse countries , and is the subject ___MASK72___ significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection . A composer ( Latin " compn "; literally " one who puts together ") is a person who creates or writes music , which can be vocal music ( for a singer or choir ), instrumental music ( e . g ., for solo piano , string quartet , wind quintet or orchestra ) or music which combines both instruments and voices ( e . g ., opera or art song , which is a singer accompanied by a pianist ). The core meaning ___MASK72___ the term refers to individuals who have contributed to the tradition ___MASK72___ Western classical music through creation ___MASK72___ works expressed in written musical notation ( e . g ., sheet music scores ). João Bosco de Freitas Mucci , better known as João Bosco is a noted Brazilian singer - songwriter with a distinctive style as a guitarist . In the 1970s he established his reputation in " música popular Brasileira " ( Portuguese : " Brazilian pop music ") alongside collaborator lyricist Aldir Blanc . A guitarist ( or a guitar player ) is a person who plays the guitar . Guitarists may play a variety ___MASK72___ guitar family instruments such as classical guitars , acoustic guitars , electric guitars , and bass guitars . Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar by singing or playing the harmonica . Gringo ( ___MASK28___ ) or Gringa ( female ) is a term , mainly used in Spanish - speaking and Portuguese - speaking countries , to refer to foreigners . In Spanish , gringo refers to someone from the United States , particularly a person who is a White American .