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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 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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  • KingsAndQueen

    Amo esse cara *-* suas letras sao boas demais, essa voz tao de jazz *-*

    6 hours ago
  • Renier3

    Dêxeu cantá pro meu corpo ficar ODARA! ♥

    yesterday evening
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    Mexe Qualquer coisa dentro, doida Já qualquer coisa doida Dentro mexe ♫

    Thursday afternoon
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    *_*

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  • MarcyStooge

    Sometimes there just can be nothing better than his music!

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    é tão gostoso ouvir suas músicas tocando pela cidade nesses dias que se aproximam do carnaval

    13 days ago
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    cucurrucucu paloma

    14 days ago
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    I want him inside me. totally.

    17 days ago
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    Sampa *-*

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    *-*

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  • keanequeen

    É que Narciso acha feio o que não é espelho

    22 days ago
  • MarcyStooge

    Can't say it more often, "Transa" makes me shiver - it's beauty makes me mad.

    23 days ago
  • Caboonha

    "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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    '' 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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    "1000th track: (28 Jun 2011) Caetano Veloso - Anunciacão"

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    compositor de destinos

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    "You don't know me, bet you'll never get to know me..."

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    porque vc me esquece e some ♪

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    quem jamais te esqueceria?

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