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Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, Brasil (1942 – present)
Caetano Veloso (born 7 August 1942) is one of the most popular and influential Brazilian composers and singers.
He was born in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, Brasil, the fifth of the seven children born to José Telles Veloso (“Seu Zezinho”) and Claudionor Vianna Telles Veloso (“Dona Canô”). His younger sister, Maria Bethânia, preceded him to fame as a singer in the mid-1960s.
He began his career singing bossa nova and he has cited his greatest musical influences from his early period as João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi. (João Gilberto would say later about Caetano’s contribution that it added an intellectual dimension to brazilian popular music.) But with such musical collaborators Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, Chico Buarque, and Os Mutantes, and greatly influenced by the later work of The Beatles, developed tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant garde art music resulting in a more international, psychedelic, and socially aware sound. Veloso’s politically active stance, unapologetically leftist, earned him the enmity of Brazil’s military dictatorship which ruled until 1985; his songs were frequently censored, and some were banned. Veloso was also alienated from the socialist left in Brazil becasue of his acceptance and integration of non-nationalist influences (like rock and roll) in his music. Veloso and Gilberto Gil spent several months in jail for “anti-government activity” in 1968 and eventually exiled themselves to London.
He was born in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, Brasil, the fifth of the seven children born to José Telles Veloso (“Seu Zezinho”) and Claudionor Vianna Telles Veloso (“Dona Canô”). His younger sister, Maria Bethânia, preceded him to fame as a singer in the mid-1960s.
He began his career singing bossa nova and he has cited his greatest musical influences from his early period as João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi. (João Gilberto would say later about Caetano’s contribution that it added an intellectual dimension to brazilian popular music.) But with such musical collaborators Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, Chico Buarque, and Os Mutantes, and greatly influenced by the later work of The Beatles, developed tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant garde art music resulting in a more international, psychedelic, and socially aware sound. Veloso’s politically active stance, unapologetically leftist, earned him the enmity of Brazil’s military dictatorship which ruled until 1985; his songs were frequently censored, and some were banned. Veloso was also alienated from the socialist left in Brazil becasue of his acceptance and integration of non-nationalist influences (like rock and roll) in his music. Veloso and Gilberto Gil spent several months in jail for “anti-government activity” in 1968 and eventually exiled themselves to London.
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Du_fromage wrote:
I want him inside me. totally.
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Sampa *-*
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É que Narciso acha feio o que não é espelho
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Can't say it more often, "Transa" makes me shiver - it's beauty makes me mad.
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"agora eu quero só você. teu jeito todo especial de ser. eu fico louco com você."
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Você me deixa a rua deserta quando atravessa e não olha pra trás
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starlightpoison wrote:
'' Porque eu sou tímido e tem um negócio de você perguntar o meu signo , quando não havia signo nenhum ... escorpião , sagitário , não sei o que lá ''
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JesseMeeusen wrote:
"1000th track: (28 Jun 2011) Caetano Veloso - Anunciacão"
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teeu_lima wrote:
compositor de destinos
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Leeosouza5 wrote:
"You don't know me, bet you'll never get to know me..."
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nathfn wrote:
porque vc me esquece e some ♪
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ciaberta wrote:
quem jamais te esqueceria?
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ThiagoHermano88 wrote:
Meu bem, meu mal....
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taisocardoso wrote:
quero ver Irene dar sua risada
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Jehssicahls wrote:
que tudo mais vá pro inferno, meu bem ²
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itsme_uiu wrote:
http://www.baixandofacil.com/cd-ivete-gil-e-caetano-especial-2011/ Aí tem o download do especial Ivete, Gil e Caetano.
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mathpeal wrote:
Isso ae, que tudo mais vá pro inferno... e meu pau cresça
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HSoaresLima wrote:
O Caetano é fantástico. Que harmonias, que letras! Quanto à antipatia, dane-se. Quero ouvir as músicas, não ser amig dele. [2]
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