This week, singer Zezé Di Camargo was canceled on social media. Zeze became persona non grata after publishing a video in the early hours of December 14th to 15th criticizing the Abravanel family because of the presence of Lula and Alexandre de Moraes at the launch of the SBT News channel. In an impatient tone, Zezé asked that his year-end special on the network no longer be broadcast. He concluded by saying that the broadcaster would be "prostituting" itself of Silvio Santos' ideals. As Folha columnist Monica Bergamo found, Silvio's daughters considered the speech sexist.The singer was contacted by presenter Ratinho and Patrícia Abravanel. Publicly, Ratinho was tough in the middle of the week: "Turning the launch of a news channel, SBT News, into political fanaticism is an attitude that borders on ignorance," said the presenter. Zezé then published a retraction note on Tuesday (16), stating that he had used "the expression 'prostituting' in a figurative sense, without any offensive or gender-based intention". Explanations for the singer's attitude rained down on social and traditional media. Political commentator João Cezar de Castro Rocha said that Zezé's attitude was more marketing than ideological. Former player Walter Casagrande stated that the sexist and misogynistic speech showed the true face of Zezé Di Camargo. For columnist Luciana Bugni, the explanation was more intimate: "It goes through the difficulty of dealing with aging, the continuous struggle to maintain your voice and combat vocal health issues, family controversies post-divorce and by Brazilian political polarization".Lots of speculation. Some with some basis. But the truth is that Zezé is a great unknown. He has been present in the lives of Brazilians for almost 35 years, since he broke through with "É o amor" in 1991. But no serious journalist, musician, historian, writer or communicator has looked into his career and written a biography of Zezé Di Camargo. Whether you like Goiás or not, his life is very representative of the transformations that Brazil has undergone in recent decades. Born in poverty, he became rich through a musical genre considered subaltern. Zezé was the vanguard of country music and saw subsequent generations pass before him. He supported Collor, FHC, Lula and Bolsonaro. He sang songs about agrarian reform ("My country"), about street children ("Thug with reason") and defended agribusiness. He was influenced by Beatles and Tião Carreiro. He divorced his first wife and became a father in his sixties. What led the singer to so many revisionist pirouettes in politics and personal life? Interviews with him rarely go beyond the deification of the artist or the banal frivolities of gossip magazines. A biography of Zezé Di Camargo, written by a serious author, would help to understand the change in the auditory pattern of deep Brazil. How have aesthetic tastes changed? How did what was considered tacky and crude become mainstream in just a few decades? If it were in another country, there would be dozens of publications about Zezé. Think, for example, of singer Taylor Swift. In a thriving publishing market like the American one, the singer has several biographies. Among the more than ten existing books about the singer, there are everything from the whitewash "The Official Taylor Swift" to unauthorized biographies, such as "The little guide to Taylor Swift: unofficial and unauthorized" and "Taylor Swift, from era to era: the unauthorized biography", the latter a bestseller in The Sunday Times newspaper. About Zezé, what do we have? There is the book "Two Hearts and a Story", released by Contigo! magazine. (yes!) in 2010. It is a photo album, without any serious analysis of Zezé's career. There is also the white-hot "Simplesmente Helena", written by journalist Carolina Kotscho, which narrates the life of the Camargo family before and after the duo's success, focusing on the strength and simplicity of Dona Helena, Zezé's mother. Kotscho's book tried to piggyback on the success of the film "Dois Filhos de Francisco" (2005), directed by the sensitive Breno Silveira. This film revitalized the singer's career at a time when he was beginning to suffer from vocal problems. In 2021, Netflix launched the series "É o amor", a reality show about the Camargo family. It was the authorized and familiar version of Zezé. As you can see, there is a filmography about the singer. But there was never anyone who dared to write a serious, dense and quality biography about Zezé. Hence, every time he gets involved in controversies, and there are many of them, several explanations emerge, almost all of them based more on guesswork than in-depth analysis. The most popular singer in the history of Brazil, Roberto Carlos, only received a major biography after more than 40 years of career, written by researcher Paulo César de Araújo in 2007. Apparently Zezé will suffer from the same contempt from our intellectuality. But that's less his problem and more ours. We are the ones who are losing. Zezé urgently needs to be biographed. There is a huge Brazil that, whether we like it or not, thinks the same way, whether when it voted for Lula or when it voted for Bolsonaro. In his ambiguities and contradictions, between his limitations and genius, Zezé is the face of Brazil. LINK PRESENT: Did you like this text? Subscribers can access seven free accesses from any link per day. Just click the blue F below.