Richard Court barely spoke Portuguese when he moved to Brazil. Forty years after his smash first single, he’s celebrated as one of the country’s most successful singers
Richard Court’s father was a military man, and when his teenage son announced he was ditching his degree at Oxford and moving to Brazil to pursue a career in music the lieutenant colonel took a distinctly dim view.
“Take it from me, you’re going to one of the grimmest dictatorships in the world,” the son remembered being told over the Christmas of 1972.
