Eucanaã Ferraz nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 18 de maio de 1961. Publicou, entre outros, Desassombro (2002, Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens, da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional), Rua do mundo (2004), Cinemateca (2008, Prêmio Jabuti), Sentimental (2012, Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Poesia), Escuta (2015), e, para o público infanto-juvenil Bicho de sete cabeças e outros seres fantásticos (2009) e Palhaço, macaco, passarinho (Prêmio Ofélia Fontes, pela Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil, o Melhor Livro para a Criança). Organizou vários livros, entre eles, Letra só (2003) e O mundo não é chato (2005), ambos de Caetano Veloso; reuniu poemas e letras de canção na antologia Veneno antimonotonia (2005); após preparar a Poesia completa e prosa de Vinicius de Moraes (2004), passou a coordenar a edição das obras do poeta (Companhia das Letras). Publicou, na coleção Folha Explica, o volume sobre Vinicius de Moraes (2006). É Professor de Literatura Brasileira na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ e, desde 2010, atua como Consultor de literatura do Instituto Moreira Salles, onde elabora publicações, exposições, debates, cursos e espetáculos.

Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Velloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil. Veloso is most known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. Veloso was born in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the founders of Tropicalismo with a group of several other musicians and artists—including his sister Maria Bethânia—in the same period. However the Brazilian government at the time viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician Gilberto Gil, in 1969. The two eventually were exiled from Brazil, and went to London, where they lived for two years. After he moved back to his home country, in 1972, Veloso once again began recording and performing, becoming popular outside of Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s. He has so far won five Latin Grammy Awards. He recorded his first all-English album, A Foreign Sound in 2004. The album contains many American standards. From Wikipedia