While attending Law School at Mackenzie University, he became increasingly involved with student organized recitals and performances, eventually abandoning the course altogether to pursue a musical career full-time.

In 1965, Taiguara recorded his first of several albums, and in the following years won many festivals, and with the skyrocketing fame that came with all the media attention, he eventually became the best selling artist of EMI-Odeon in Brazil, until he was pushed into an abrupt exile in order to avoid torture or worse, as many of his peers at the time were forced to endure.

Always troubled by the harsh reality of the less fortunate, Taiguara increasingly leaned towards leftist views, later becoming involved with political activities which rallied for a fairer future and social and economical equality for all.

Although he was never officially affiliated with any political parties, communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes became a great friend and mentor in his later years.

His last project, an album of songs that celebrated and examined the joys and hardships of the poor living on the slums of Rio de Janeiro, never came to completion.