The composition might also be the immersive space closely linked to living. When it comes to women who create, reinforcing feminine themes, music starts to make politics, crossing gender boundaries, and showing that the subaltern can speak in a market dominated by male chauvinism. This Ph. D. dissertation aims to critically reconstruct from interviews the history of some Brazilian songwriters representing seven musical styles that prevailed on the Brazilian music scene in the second half of the 20th century. Based on the expression cantautora, used to designate a female singer and songwriter in most neolatin languages-speaking countries, but not in Brazil, the objective is to emphasize the author role of those established singers and discuss the following points: their experience in a predominantly dominated market by the male gender; whether singing makes them create or whether creations lead them to sing; what are their inspirations; what moves them towards composition; and what, after all, they said and which, according to them, was not said by men. These and other questions will illustrate the multiple talents of these artists and show the importance of cantautoras for Brazilian culture.