A trupe ainda participou de discos de Luis Melodia e Caetano Veloso e seguiram fazendo shows pelos anos 80 até a morte repentina de Oberdan, em 1984, por causa de um acidente de carro.
I lost many literary battles the day I read Their Eyes Were Watching God. I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical: Zadie Smith on Zora Neale Hurston