Veloso describes the movement as a wish to be different-not "defensive" as the right-wing Brazilian military government, which vehemently opposed the movement. Beginning in 1967, with collaborators including Bethânia, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, and Os Mutantes, Veloso developed Tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant-garde music. Shortly after the move, Veloso won a lyrics contest for his composition "Um Dia" and was signed to Philips Records. ġn 1965 he moved again to Rio de Janeiro, with his sister Maria Bethânia, also a musician. Veloso moved to the Bahian port city of Salvador as a teenager, the city in which Gilberto lived and a center of Afro-Brazilian culture and music. Veloso first heard Gilberto at 17 years old, and describes the musician as his "supreme master." He recognizes Gilberto's contribution to Brazilian music as new-"illuminating" the tradition of Brazilian music and paving the way for future innovation.
The musical style of bossa nova and João Gilberto, one of its most prominent exponents, were major influences on Veloso's music as he grew up. His childhood was influenced greatly by artistic endeavors: he was interested in both literature and filmmaking as a child, but focused mainly on music. Veloso was born in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, the fifth of seven children of José Teles Veloso (1901-1983) and Claudionor Viana Teles Veloso (1907-). Problems listening to this file? See media help. The album contains many American standards.Ī 19 second sample of "O Leãozinho", a song recorded relatively early in Veloso's career. He recorded his first all-English album, A Foreign Sound in 2004. He has so far won five Latin Grammy Awards. After he moved back to his home country, in 1972, Veloso once again began recording and performing, becoming popular outside of Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s.
The two eventually were exiled from Brazil, and went to London, where they lived for two years. However the Brazilian government at the time viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician Gilberto Gil, in 1969. He became one of the founders of Tropicalismo with a group of several other musicians and artists-including his sister Maria Bethânia-in the same period.
Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. Veloso was born in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a college student in the mid-1960s. Veloso is most known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century" and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil. Música Popular Brasileira, Tropicalismo, Pop, Psychedelic rock, StandardsĬaetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, Brazil Caetano Veloso at Umbria Jazz ( Perugia, Italy)
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