After a debut album which didn’t get much reception, the band released another project in 1972, Acabou Chorare (No More Crying). This album immediately shot the band to stardom, and it wasn’t hard to see why. Acabou Chorare was a great album. The track listing includes songs that are classics in Brazil; ‘Preta Pretinha,’ ‘Brasil Pandeiro’, ‘Besta é tu’, and my favorite track, ‘Mistério do Planeta.’ But every song on the 40-minute long album has great guitar playing and captivating samba rhythms. The album received a lot of radio time, especially its title track and ‘Preta Pretinha,’ and Novos Baianos’ concerts became packed with young adults looking to dance and have a good time. Although it has a very free-spirit hippie vibe to it, Acabou Chorare is an album that holds up even now. In 2007, Rolling Stone Brazil went as far as to name it the greatest Brazilian album of all time.

Novos Baianos had many members, and the group lived a vagabond lifestyle for a few years, exemplified by them recording their third album, Novos Baianos F.C., in a garage in Vargem Grande, Rio de Janeiro. Due to the nature of the group, it wasn’t too surprising that by 1976 the band had lost a few members, who had wanted to go pursue other musical careers. By 1979, the band had dissolved entirely. But the New Bahians had made the most of their time, and Novos Baianos are still one of the most loved bands in Brazil today.