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.

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Top Tracks

1	Alegria, Alegria full track	454
2	Irene	423
3	Sampa full track	422
4	Tropicália	417
5	Queixa full track	320
6	Superbacana full track	316
7	Odara full track	311
8	Coisa mais linda full track	296
9	O Leãozinho full track	279
10	Terra full track	251
11	Não enche	249
11	Sozinho full track	249
13	Lost in the Paradise	240
14	Nine Out of Ten	230
15	Voce E Linda full track	228

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beat_herz wrote:
yesterday evening

confesso, caetano é meu grande amor

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torresmi wrote:
last week

Ai, que esse cara tem me consumido!!!

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melancov wrote:
last week

Magela Rodrigues! Rodriguinho! Leandro Amaral! Wágner Gomes! Ray!

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zuat wrote:
12 days ago

Leandro Samaroni! Catanha! Rogerio Gaucho! Jose de Souza! Leilton!

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PsychoBells wrote:
14 days ago

Transa is awesome

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thiagofarias wrote:
last month

... motos e fuscas avançam os sinais vermelhos ...

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milca_jnr wrote:
last month

Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes...

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Shy-Guy wrote:
last month

I got into his music a little late, but I'm with the cool kids now.

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Gourov wrote:
last month

Beirut tocando O Leãozinho, do Caetano: http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=r9_bu7y_EjQ linda versão!

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michaeljakob wrote:
last month

:)

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melancov wrote:
last month

Talvez tenha sofrido uma grande influência do lançamento deste, Iguarassu.

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Stnauperkrakuku wrote:
last month

Love you <3

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Judas_Iscariot wrote:
August 2008

Not enough anglophone love!

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Iguarassu wrote:
August 2008

não dizem por aí que o araçá foi meio como uma resposta, se não uma mão dada, àquela aventurada boa do walter franco em "Ou Nâo" ?

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LeftDancer wrote:
August 2008

love his music...lol

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Joaosenome wrote:
August 2008

É só votar na foto!

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BuddyRevell wrote:
August 2008

Parabéns pro Caetano! =D

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mari0587 wrote:
August 2008

eu também! era dela que eu tava falando.

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escaladecinza wrote:
August 2008

queria de volta a foto de caê com guitarra na mão

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mari0587 wrote:
August 2008

que foto linda! nunca tinha visto. Caetano está na frente do prédio do Banco do Brasil, em Brasília. Alguém sabe de quando é essa foto?

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