His first two records, "Por Onde Andará Stephen Fry" and "Vô Imbolá", won gold status. The title track on "Por Onde Andará Stephen Fry?" (Where could Stephen Fry be?) was a reference to British actor Stephen Fry's flight from the stage play "Cellmates" in 1995, when he disappeared from the United Kingdom after bad reviews. Zeca won the 2000 Latin Grammys for "best pop album". In 2014, his live album "Calma Aí, Coração - Ao Vivo" was nominated for the same award, but in the Best Música Popular Brasileira Album category, with the title song being nominated for the Best Brazilian Song category. He currently resides in São Paulo. In 2019, he received another Latin Gramma nomination for Best MPB Album, this time for "O Amor no Caos".