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.”
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Official Website: www.caetanoveloso.com.br
CURRENT RELEASE
Ofertório (Ao Vivo) (May 2018)
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Caetano Veloso Musings on Apollo 11
From KCRW Musings on Apollo 11 and Music By: TOM SCHNABEL “The Apollo 11 moon landing that took place on July 20, 1969, represented a staggering achievement for the human race. The desire to explore outside the earth’s boundaries reached back to Mesopotamia, ancient Babylon and Persia, also with Aristotle and the ancient Greeks, and later with cosmologists Tycho Brahe,...
Posted Jul 16th, 2019
Brazil is changing. Caetano Veloso is forever.
From The Washington Post Brazil is changing. Caetano Veloso is forever. By: Chris Richards When Caetano Veloso sings, it sounds more powerful than reality, but he knows it’s real. For all of the whimsy, beatitude and hallucinogenic sensuality in his music, the colossal Brazilian songwriter has always been an artful pragmatist, a devout atheist and an unwavering skeptic of the...
Posted Apr 18th, 2019
Caetano Veloso and sons come to Oakland
From The Mercury News Music icon Caetano Veloso and sons come to Oakland to sing against oppression By: Andrew Gilbert Touring for the first time with his sons, Veloso shares the stage with Moreno, Zeca, and Tom Veloso, reprising an expansive program documented on the lovely 2018 live album “Ofertório” (Verve), including “Um canto de afoxé para o Bloco do...
Posted Apr 5th, 2019
Brazilian Legend Brings Family Band
From CBS SF BayArea Brazilian Legend Brings Family Band To Oakland’s Paramount By: Dave Pehling A living legend of Brazilian music returns to the Bay Area this week when Caetano Veloso headlines Oakland’s Paramount Theatre on Friday with a band made up of the famed singer/songwriter’s sons for a concert presented by SFJAZZ. The extraordinary songwriter has enjoyed a remarkably...
Posted Apr 3rd, 2019
Caetano Veloso: NYT’s Op-Ed
From The New York Times Caetano Veloso: Dark Times Are Coming for My Country By: Caetano Veloso In the late 1960s, the military dictatorship in Brazil arrested and imprisoned many artists and intellectuals for their political beliefs. I was one of them. The militarists are back. ‘Brazil is not for beginners,’ Antonio Carlos Jobim used to say. Mr. Jobim, who...
Posted Oct 26th, 2018
“Family Show”: Caetano Veloso
From Correio Em ‘Show Familiar’, Caetano e Filhos Celebram a Música e o Passar do Tempo By: Marília Moreira “Ter filhos foi a coisa mais importante da minha vida adulta”, diz Caetano. “Quero cantar com eles pelo que isso representa de celebração e alegria, sem dar importância ao sentido social da herança”. É assim que Caetano Veloso, 75 anos, sintetiza...
Posted Jan 15th, 2018
Musicians Stage Protests In Rio
From The Guardian Leading Brazilian musicians stage protest concert in Rio By: AFP Several hundred people attended a concert by top Brazilian musicians in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday in the latest protest demanding the resignation of President Michel Temer and calling for new elections. Caught up in serious corruption allegations, Temer is refusing to step down, hanging onto his...
Posted May 29th, 2017
NYT’s Essential Brazilian Playlist
From The New York Times The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening By: Jon Pareles, Ben Ratliff, Jon Caramanica, and Nate Chinen Casual and seductive on the surface, ingenious and multilayered within — that’s the music of Brazil, which is about to get a new burst of global exposure as the Olympics begin in Rio de Janeiro. It’s a...
Posted Aug 3rd, 2016
Congrats to IMN’s Latin Grammy Winners!
From The Latin Recording Academy Congratulations to Marisa Monte and Caetano Veloso on their Latin Grammy wins! BEST MPB (MUSICA POPULAR BRASILEIRA) ALBUM Verdade, Uma Ilusão Marisa Monte Label: EMI/Phonomotor Records/Universal Music BEST BRAZILIAN SONG A Bossa Nova É Foda Caetano Veloso, songwriter (Caetano Veloso) Track from: Multishow Ao Vivo Caetano Veloso Abraçaço Label: Universal Music/Multishow For the full list...
Posted Nov 21st, 2014
Review: Still pushing at the edges, Caetano at Hollywood Bowl
From The L.A. Times By Randall Roberts Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl Three handsome men, each raised in different decades in different countries and with varied demeanors, walked onto the Hollywood Bowl stage one after another on Sunday night and sang in a few different Romance languages about mortality, love, diamonds and jasmine, sinister helicopters, disgusting sex, movie stars...
Posted Sep 23rd, 2014
From Brazilian Orpheus Caetano Veloso: A Man With a Guitar By: Eugene S. Robinson here’s actually a name for what happens when you stand in full contemplation of the great goodness that is the musical mountain generated by Caetano Veloso: the Jerusalem Syndrome. Brazilian folk with Afro-Cuban rhythms and pop, all astride his plaintive and sweet-sounding vocal lines. Which is...
Posted Jun 20th, 2014
Caetano Veloso’s power to transport at 71
From Brazilian Orpheus Caetano Veloso: A Man With a Guitar By: Eugene S. Robinson There’s actually a name for what happens when you stand in full contemplation of the great goodness that is the musical mountain generated by Caetano Veloso: the Jerusalem Syndrome. Brazilian folk with Afro-Cuban rhythms and pop, all astride his plaintive and sweet-sounding vocal lines. Which is...
Posted Jun 20th, 2014
Caetano’s “undiminished enthusiasm and bravery” at Barbican masterclass
From The Guardian Caetano Veloso review ‘” a masterclass from a Brazilian music veteran By: Robin Denselow Caetano Veloso may be one of the legends of the Brazilian music scene, but here he refused to rely on past achievements, instead presenting an exquisite and sometimes startling masterclass on how a great veteran can keep moving on. The one-time hero of...
Posted May 30th, 2014
Caetano Veloso’s “Abracaco” given “big hug” by NPR
Caetano Veloso’s new release is reviewed on NPR by Banning Eyre, senior editor at AfroPop.org. “‘Abracaco’ means a big hug and the amiable embrace these songs deliver requires no translation. Let’s just be thankful to receive yet another big hug from this giant of contemporary music.” Read more here
Posted Apr 28th, 2014
Caetano Veloso Leads Brazilian Cast for ‘I’m Alive’ Rainforest Alliance Project
From Billboard Caetano Veloso Leads Brazilian Cast for ‘I’m Alive’ Rainforest Alliance Project BY: Judy Cantor-Navas Brazilian star Caetano Veloso and rocker Lenine are among the artists who have gathered in Rio’s Floresta de Tijuca rainforest to record new music based on Veloso’s classic ‘Nine Out of Ten’ and ‘sing their love for the Earth.’ The ‘I’m Alive – Rainforest...
Posted Apr 22nd, 2014
Brazilian Singer-Songwriter Caetano Veloso Never Ages
From The Seattle Times Brazilian Singer-Songwriter Caetano Veloso Never Ages By: Paul de Barros The stunning final installment of longtime Brazilian superstar Caetano Veloso’s trilogy with the trio of youngsters known as Banda Ce, ‘Abraçaço’ (big hug), kicks off with an irresistibly boingo-bouncing paean to bossa nova and its creator Joao Gilberto (the ‘wizard of Juazeiro’: one of many oblique...
Posted Mar 26th, 2014
“Abraçaço”
Caetano Veloso’s “Abraçaço” ‘Resisting the comfy scrub of contentment that bleaches an artist’s audacious colors over time, Veloso’s voice and songs are newly elastic, inspired by the economy and daring of the trio of electric guitar, bass, and drums that accompanies his acoustic pluck.’‘“Boston Globe ‘The Brazilian singer and songwriter is consistently one of the most literate and beguiling forces...
Posted Mar 25th, 2014
Abraçaço
From Nonesuch Nonesuch Records releases Caetano Veloso’s album Abraçaço in North America on March 25, 2014. Abraçaço, released in 2012 in South America and Europe, won a Latin Grammy for Best Singer-Songwriter Album and earned the #1 spot on Rolling Stone Brazil’s Best National Albums of 2012 list. Produced by Pedro Sá and Caetano Veloso’s son Moreno Veloso, Abraçaço is...
Posted Mar 25th, 2014
Caetano Veloso: Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year
from Nonesuch Caetano Veloso Celebrated As 2012 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year Congratulations to Caetano Veloso, an eight-time Latin Grammy winner and two-time Grammy winner, who was celebrated as the 2012 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year last night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Songs from Veloso’s catalog were performed by an array of artists...
Posted Nov 15th, 2012
New Album: A Tribute to Caetano Veloso
from Consequence of Sound New Music: Beck ‘” ‘Michelangelo Antonioni’ (Caetano Veloso cover) By Alex Young Last year, Beck, Devendra Banhart, and tropicalia legend Caetano Veloso performed together on stage during the annual fundraising dinner for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. In October, the three musicians will paths once more with the release of a new tribute album...
Posted Oct 15th, 2012
Caetano Veloso wins Latin Grammy
The Latin Grammy’s were held last week and Caetano Veloso took home the award for “Best Brazilian Rock Album” for Zii and Zie – Live. Congratulations to Caetano and everyone else involved with this wonderful album. To see the rest of the winners click here
Posted Nov 15th, 2011
Caetano Veloso Named Guest Director of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival
From: Nonesuch Journal Caetano Veloso has been named the Guest Director of the 2011 Telluride Film Festival. The legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter has been invited to select a series of films to present at the festival, now in its 38th year, to be held over Labor Day weekend, September 2’“5, 2011, in Telluride, Colorado. Among the festival’s past guest directors are...
Posted Jul 6th, 2011
VIDEO Caetano Veloso, Beck and Devendra Banhart
From the New York Times Behind the Scenes at the MoCA benefit This year’s MoCA benefit, directed by the artist Doug Aitken, featured the singers Devendra Banhart, Beck and Caetano Veloso. For a look behind the scenes at rehearsals, click here
Posted Jan 3rd, 2011
REVIEW: Devendra Banhart, Beck and Caetano Veloso at MOCA
From the LA Times Home in the Wild West: Devendra Banhart, Beck and Caetano Veloso at MOCA By Margaret Wappler The multimedia artist Doug Aitken, who envisioned the Artist’s Museum Happening at MOCA on Saturday night, had a singular mission: to describe and then harness the energy of the West, for one fleeting evening. The trio of musicians who performed...
Posted Nov 17th, 2010
Caetano Veloso to Perform with Beck and Devandra Banhart
From the LA Times Folk rock is happening at this year’s MOCA gala, with Beck, Veloso, Banhart By Mike Boehm At its 2009 annual benefit gala, dubbed ‘MOCA New,’ L.A.‘s Museum of Contemporary Art and celebrity-obsessed artist and event creator Francesco Vezzoli went for the hottest new thing they could find for the evening’s musical element ‘”- and came up...
Posted Oct 28th, 2010
Nonesuch to Release Veloso’s “Zii e Zie” in March
(From Nonesuch) As revelers “laissez les bons temps roulez” for Mardi Gras and samba through the streets of Rio for Carnival, Nonesuch marks the occasion by introducing Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso’s 41st album, Zii e Zie, now available for pre-order in the Nonesuch Store . The record, released last year in South America and Europe, has already earned Veloso a...
Posted Feb 24th, 2010
Caetano, Ojos, and Lenine take home Latin Grammys
IMN would like to congratulate all of our artists who took home Latin Grammys last night at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony. Singer-songwriter album: “Ce,” Caetano Veloso.” Brazilian song (Portuguese language): “Nao Me Arrependo,” Caetano Veloso (Caetano Veloso). Brazilian contemporary pop album: “Acustico MTV,” Lenine. Flamenco album: “Techari,” Ojos De Brujo. The Latin GRAMMY Awards, which is the first...
Posted Nov 9th, 2007
Charlie Rose Interviews Caetano Veloso
Listen to the interview here Veloso is one of the most popular and influential Brazilian composers and singers. Veloso began his career singing bossa nova. With such musical collaborators Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, Chico Buarque, and Os Mutantes, and a strong influence of the later work of The Beatles, Veloso developed tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock...
Posted May 11th, 2004
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