Caetano Veloso: music and biography

Caetano Veloso is one of the greatest figures of Brazilian popular music and was two great names of Tropicalism.

His compositions of him are marked, not our collective imagery and many of them are engraved - you want to, you want us, you do not have memory.

How about knowing more about the life of the Baiano singer and re-embedding his most famous music?

Music

Happiness happiness

The most celebrated songs of Caetano Veloso, Happiness happiness It was listed in fourth place in the III Brazilian Popular Music Festival of TV Record in 1967. Caetano has been 25 years old on occasion.

Controversial, or young artist fez apresentação accompanied by the rock band the Beat Boys, with Argentine musicians and so rejected electric guitars.

To letter, which was intended cosmopolitan e comreferences to pop culture e contemporary, fala on a young qualquer, anonymous, who passed by the great city being flooded by a series of images present not collective imagery of height.

Caetano himself defines essa sua canção as

um portrait, na first pessoa, of a typical young man of the time walking in the streets of the city com fortes visual suggestions, maids, is possible for simple mention of names of products, personalities, places and functions

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It is forbidden to prohibit

Sung no III International Festival of Canção da TV Globo, in 1968, to the lyrics of It is forbidden to prohibit It functioned as a kind of manifesto.

To be presented as a singer and composer from Bahia, I have received many times on occasion I have been rejeição to the first reaction of the public.

Later, the music turned um hino against censorship In the years of chumbo, a true portrait of a black age gives us history.

Sozinho

Written in 1995 and recorded in 1998, to music written by Peninha recebeu or Prêmio Sharp de melhor canção do ano and was eternalized in the voice of Caetano Veloso depois de já ter, sung by Sandra de Sá.

Inserted no disk Minha garment, or cantor na verdade adapted to a song that was all written, not feminine.

A letter fala about a frustrated love relationship and about o feeling of solidão do eu-lrico, that acha that not loved or enough hair to share

A year long two verses he questions about the past, or present and or future of the fragile relationship.

You are cute

Launched in 1983, You are cute, composted by Caetano Veloso, é uma bela tribute to beloved woman.

Long years of the lyrics we see the eu-lyrical declare itself exalting, above all, physical beauty daquela because it nurtures devotion.

As well as praise her physically, she also loves her how that woman knows how to live life and how to face feeling full and joyful.

Or Leãozinho

Composted by Caetano in 1977, Or Leãozinho Foi uma maneira found as a homage singer or bassist Dadi Carvalho, who is part of two Novos Baianos.

Com uma slight hit and that will be a children's inspiration, a music was inserted no disco Bug, Virou um hit e das most famous songs não só do repertoire of Caetano as the own Brazilian popular music.

Prayer ao tempo

Composted in 1979 and included no album Transcendental Cinema, Prayer ao tempo It is the second faixa do trabalho and was written by Caetano.

A letter é um reconhecimento do imperative do tempo e year same time a kind of prece, of request of protection for you difficult moments.

In a long two verses, the eu-lyrical shows itself conscious of its smallness due to its impossibility of conquering or tempo. Still, he shows his strength to louvar and ask for support when he finds himself in trouble.

The letter comes to life from the notion of cycles, phases - algumas melhores e outras piores.

Biography of Caetano Veloso

Origin

Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Velloso was born on August 7, 1942 in Santo Amaro da Purificação, a little known city of Recôncavo Baiano.

Or minor was or fifth filho two sete do casal José Telles Velloso (civil servant, managed two Correios e Telégrafos) and Claudionor Vianna Telles Velloso (house donor).

From the first years of his life, Caetano appeared to have a huge taste for music and visual arts. When he has been in the family for 14 years, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he began to develop even more of his skills.

Return to Bahia

In 1960 the Veloso family came from Rio de Janeiro and was born in Salvador. Caetano, returned to his native state, entered a university where he went to study philosophy.

In parallel, she sang in bars with Irmã Maria Bethânia. He also wrote a series of film reviews between 1960 and 1962 for the Diário de Notícias.

Início da carreira musical

In 1961 Catano fez or seu first work in theater creating a sound trilha for a peça by Nelson Rodrigues (a peça em questão was Mouth of Ouro).

Caetano and Bethânia will participate, alongside other artists such as Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé and Gal Costa, in the mythical show Nós, for example, of the inauguration of the Vila Velha Theater in 1964.

In 1965 Caetano and Bethânia moved to Rio de Janeiro to develop a career. On the occasion of her career, she had been invited to participate in the Opinion show in order to replace Nara Leão.

Veloso is coming to participate in the Festival da Canção and, in 1967, Caetano gravou or his first album - chamado Sunday - next to Gal.

Or Tropicalism

Caetano fez part of the historic disco-manifesto dos chamado tropicalistas Tropicália ou Panis et Circensis (1968)

A geração that brought together talents such as Rita Lee, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Rogério Duprat among so many other names were marked as being an answering machine, with the ability to promote the move.

Relembre As major music from Tropicália.

Military rank

As a strong repression and censorship lived during the years of Chumbo, Caetano was persecuted - as well as so many colleagues -, imprisoned and accused of disrespecting or defeating the national bandeira.

O singer was forced to go into exile. In 1969 he traveled to London where he stayed and returned to Brazil three years later.

Filhos

Or singer and composer with three films: Moreno Veloso (fruit of relationship with Andréa Gadelha), Zeca and Tom Veloso (films of Paula Lavigne, with whom he was related for 19 years).

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