Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges

In 1963 Milton Nascimento moved from Tr?s Pontas, in the midlands of the state of Minas Gerais, to the capital Belo Horizonte, in order to work. He took a place to live at the Levy building. The Borges Family, including M?rcio Borges, already lived there. One day, after watching Fran?ois Truffaut's movie Jules et Jim three times in a row, Milton and M?rcio started composing (Milton already played in some bars of Belo Horizonte): M?rcio wrote the lyrics, and Milton wrote the music.

Since then, M?rcio always played a great role in the history of Clube de Esquina as lyricist, mainly together with, at a later stage, Fernando Brant. The first album (Clube da Esquina), from 1972, was followed by another one in 1978 (Clube da Esquina no. 2), that contains tracks written by authors that were not part of the group (e.g., Chico Buarque). Clube da Esquina was, and is, surely based on the voice of Milton Nascimento (and, mainly at the beginning, L? Borges' too), that often participates as an actual instrument, the composition being a contour to Milton's singing.