Book, Ney Matogrosso: the biography[LS]

The result of five years of research and almost two hundred interviews, the story of one of the most relevant artistic personalities in Brazil of our time. Allied only to his own intuition, Ney Matogrosso opened a unique path in Brazilian music. She faced the intransigence of her military father and the dogmas of the Catholic Church, survived the leaden years and the shadow of AIDS, remained firm in the face of showbiz's promises of wealth, criticism of her “woman's song” and the vigilance of censorship . Journalist and biographer Julio Maria spent five years following Ney's trail to tell the story of one of the most transformative characters in the country's culture. He visited the house where he was born in Bela Vista do Mato Grosso do Sul, the military village where he lived his troubled adolescence with his father in Campo Grande and the Air Force barracks that housed him as a soldier in Rio de Janeiro. He found an older brother that the family had no news about, collected documents from agents who observed him during the dictatorship and located rare facts from the Secos e Molhados phase. Ney Matogrosso — The biography goes to the deepest layers of Ney's story to reveal the life of an artist who paid dearly for defending his right to be free. “Exciting reading, Julio Maria goes deep into the portrait of the artist who forever marked Brazilian life. […] The relationship with Cazuza, the strength with which Ney watched the deaths of so many lovers and friends from the AIDS virus, his performances in theater in his youth and in cinema in his maturity, the dignity and wisdom of his approach and arrival at old age ( which never seems to match that name), everything in the book shows a fascinating human being, who enhances the perception of our life as a society.” - Caetano Veloso