Music Work that made Raul Seixas be tortured by the Brazilian rock dictatorship was three days under the military and then exiled in New York, from where he returned after a year for writing

Several times, Raul Seixas and your composition partner, Paulo Coelhomanaged to circumvent censorship. Some of its first successes, as “GOLD OF Fool” and “Fly in soup”are successful examples of acidic letters and criticism that passed unscathed through the military dictatorship.

However, the very name of his soil career debut album, Krig-ha, mandolo! (1973) – “Watch out, here comes the enemy!” “Already called the first warning sign.” The title was questioned by the military in the Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS), in early 1974.

To make matters worse, the album came with a chain “Alternative society“. That would be the name of most persecuted music of Seixas, launched at the next work, Gita(1974).

With her, Raulizto entered the target of the military dictatorship. In an interview of 1988 to the journalist André Barbosafrom the radio FM Record (via Adventures in history), the Bahian singer and composer remembered the times of terror lived in Brazil led by the military.

Initially, he spoke of how he was living at the time and what were the plans of “society”:

“In 1974, I had alternative society, this structural idea, with the parameters all developed. I was in an esoteric era, attending everything, participating in everything, writing to John Lennon. I didn’t know I would meet him. Nor did I know that I was going to be expelled from Brazil. Prison order of the 1st Army! “

According to the artist, there was a real plan to put into practice the idea of ​​living in a marginal community, oblivious to traditional society:

“It was going to be donated to me, by an Egyptian esoteric society of Aleister Crowleya land in Minas Gerais. And this one I think was the summit, culminated there. I was going to build a city, an antiqueness, the anti -altudo, the antiguade. I was going to make a model city. We were so crazy about the idea. I, Paulo Coelho, had a lawyer, had a judge. There were important people from each area in the alternative society. “

The arrest of Raul Seixas

The plans had to be changed when Raul was arrested by the military dictatorship in the Rio de Janeiro. He recalled:

“I was a year exiled from Brazil, unable to go back. A DOPS car barred my taxi and I was naked with a black hood on my head. I went to a place, if I’m not mistaken, Realengo. I feel it was there, realengo. An underground place, which had slime. I ran the walls and had slime. “

The artist then described details of torture. He stated:

“There was a little good, another brute that punched me, one that gave electric shock in private places and everything. I spent three days there. You know, each had a personality. It was a torture of personality. I didn’t know who came. I just felt by the footsteps.”

Return to Brazil

However, as Gita It became a commercial success, with over 600,000 copies sold, Raul Seixas was allowed to return to Brazil after a year. Your best selling album burst with hymns like “Fear of the rain”the title track and the “alternative society” itself, which would eventually be prohibited from being executed and conveyed.

Raul told how it was allowed to return to Brazil:

“I had done many things USA When the Brazilian consulate came in my apartment. It was almost in December 1974. He knocked on the door of my apartment saying that I could get back. That Brazil already called me, that I was a national heritage and that I was selling album. Cynically, the guy said like this. “

The allegation – false – from denunciation to dictatorship

In 2019, with the release of the book Raul Seixas: Do not say that the song is lostthe journalist and writer Jotabê Medeiros He raised the possibility that Raul, in one of the interrogations, accompanied by torture, would have delivered partner Paulo Coelho to the military.

However, the hypothesis did not present cabal evidence and then was refuted from other documents that showed that Paulo Coelho in question was another, almost namely, but not exactly the partner of Raul Seixas.

FERNANDO MORAISBiographer of Paulo Coelho, declared to Folha de S. Paulo At the time:

“These documents and the new character throw light on two biographies – Paul’s, because he puts an end to a half -century mystery, and Raul’s, because he puts a stone on a terrible suspicion, that he would have reported Paulo Coelho.”

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