Torquato Neto

A poet and journalist from Teresina in Piauí, Torquato Neto was the lyricist who wrote some of Tropicália's sharpest words, including verses for Gil and Caetano on the 1968 collective album. His writing carried the movement's tension between irony and political dread under the dictatorship. He took his own life in 1972, the year his exiled friends returned.