Talk:Geraldo Vandré

Geraldo Vandré
Geraldo was my ex wife’s fiancée at the time of his arrest by the DOPS. She was also arrested and tortured six times for her possession of posters of CHE and books by Marx and her participation in anti establishment forums. She recounted that Geraldo was brutally tortured until he was basically a vegetable. His performance in the Maracana stadium seating 150,000 where he informed his audience that his song Rosa Flor was banned by the Federal Censors so he said he’d just play the music on his violão (guitar), and the entire audience sang the whole song in his place. The army with tanks surrounded the Maracana and stormtroopers fired their machine guns into the crowd. The lyrics epitomized the struggle between the natural beauty of Brazil typified by the Rose and the thorns that represented the military dictatorship that made you bleed If you touched them as Brazil bleeds under oppression. It is estimated 350,000 Brazilians died in the purges. 2600:1700:3A62:6330:A963:7458:B54E:7EDE (talk) 21:01, 12 July 2022 (UTC)