Primeira Vista" won the Best Song prize of the Troféu Imprensa (SBT) and was included in a CD by Argentinean star Pedro Aznar. Lokua Kanza, Dominguinhos, Arrigo Barnabé, and Paulo Moura, among others, participated on his third album, Beleza Mano, and in 2000, he released a fourth, Mama Mundi. Having new partnerships in songs with his old idolLokua Kanza, César toured Europe six times in 2000, performing for the second time at the Montreux Festival (Switzerland). ~ Alvaro Neder, Rovi His album O Amor É um Ato Revolucionário was considered one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2019 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. In January 2022, he released a single with Lala Garin, "Vermelho Esperança", written by him and taken off the soundtrack for the theater play A hora da estrela – O canto de Macabéa, which happened in 2020 and was inspired by Clarice Lispector's Hour of the Star. Post Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's 2022 election victory, the Worker's Party (PT) listed César as one of the potential names to govern in Lula's new government, as the Minister for Culture. Despite past experience as Paraíba's secretary of Culture in 2011, César expressed on social media that he prefers to see either Juca Ferreira or Jandira Feghali in charge of the ministry instead. Albums Aos Vivos (1995) Cuzcuz-Clã (1996) Beleza Mano (1997) Mama Mundi (2000) Respeitem meus cabelos, brancos (2002) De uns tempos pra cá (2006) Francisco, forró y frevo (2008) Estado de Poesia (2015) O Amor é um Ato Revolucinário (2019) Vestido de Amor (2022) References External links Chico César official webpage 1964 births Living people Brazilian singer-songwriters Brazilian people of indigenous peoples descent People from Paraíba Latin music songwriters Brazil (band) albums Brazil culture-related lists