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Caetano Veloso
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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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tonibluss wrote:
Valeu Caetano!
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mak182 wrote:
cae, cadê você?
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digoduque wrote:
very good pretty song!
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Gourov wrote:
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showmenow wrote:
eu como, eu como você.
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millerjmatos wrote:
Gênio
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fekertscher wrote:
superbacana
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nouvelle_lune wrote:
Supra-sumo da intelectualidade nacional!!! Espero, um dia, sair da minha reles condição de analfabeta e cafona e chegar a tal nível cultural... Deveria fazer uso do silêncio, ao menos para tentar preservar a inquestionável(?) imagem de intelectual e ícone da MPB que lhe foi conferida pela MÍDIA.
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mariana_maj wrote:
Loser.
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Rafiiinha_ wrote:
Anda falando tanta merda :(
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ThiagokCardoso wrote:
No hablo portugues, y yo hablo en espanol, pero mi espanol es horrible. Why did I just write in spanish on a brazilian artist's page??? - Esses caras são umas figuras! hahaha
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Allaaan wrote:
Bom músico, mas quando abre a boca para opinar...
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mardomi wrote:
". . . Eu poderia esquecer a dor de ser tão só pra ser um sonho. Daí então alguém chegasse buscando um sonho em forma de desejo, felicidade então pra nós seria . . ." Eu e a Brisa, poesia pura
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djmasky wrote:
O que representa a Bahia e o Brasil....
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rorodrigo wrote:
É que Narciso acha feio o que não é espelho.
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Ianagc wrote:
Sozinho ♫
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biinabrombim wrote:
Nada, nada mais que tristeza e silêncio.
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mands_chaplin wrote:
Não deixe que o nosso amor seja um corisco no caos, mas passos da liberdade pisando seus degraus.... feito de momentos bons e de momentos maus, de descobertas, de ventos, velas, naus... <3333333
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lucastize wrote:
o melhor, o melhor.
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gpsampaio wrote:
"meu coração vagabundo quer guardar o mundo em mim..."
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