Caetano Veloso
PROJECTS:
Caetano Veloso is among the most influential and beloved artists to emerge from Brazil, where he began his musical career in the 1960s. Absorbing musical and aesthetic ideas from sources as diverse as The Beatles, concrete poetry, the French Dadaists, and the Brazilian modernist poets of the 1920s, Veloso – together with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, his sister Maria Bethânia, and a number of other poets and intellectuals – founded the Tropicália movement and permanently altered the course of his country’s popular music. Caetano continues to be a major musical, social, and cultural force in Brazil, and an influential figure to musicians all over the world. The New York Times calls him “one of the greatest songwriters of the century.”
PRESS QUOTES:
The Brazilian master remains in a league of his own. Forty years after injecting a rock beat into Brazilian pop (and earning the disapproval of the country’s military rulers in the process), Veloso has returned to similar territory… fans won’t be disappointed
Times (UK)
…always dressing his ideas with instrumental touches that are engaging and as imaginative as his exquisite vocals.
Los Angeles Times
One of music’s true individualists: a singer whose radiant voice always sounds unassumingly sincere, a composer whose supple melodies solve intricate harmonic puzzles, a lyricist who trusts listeners to follow complex ideas as well as intimate confessions.
The New York Times
