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TROPICALIA IN FURS CAETANO VELOSO1968 ORIGINAL LP PSYCH TROPICALIA GROOVIE MONOPHILPS 33rpm R765.026LMADE IN BRAZIL CONDITION: COVER: VG RECORD: VG SEE PHOTOS FOR DETAIL.
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso Portuguese pronunciation: kae t nu emanu w vi n t lis ve lozu born August 7, 1942 , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist.
Veloso first became 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 remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since.
Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards.
On November 14, 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
1 Veloso was one of seven children born into the family of Jos Teles Velloso Seu Zeca , a government official, and Claudionor Viana Teles Velloso Dona Can , a housewife.
2 He was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purifica o, in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Salvador, the state capital, as a college student in the mid-1960s.
Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his firstlabel.
He became one of the founders of Tropicalismo with a group of several other musicians and artists including his sister Maria Beth nia in the same period.
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.
The two eventually were exiled from Brazil, and went to London, where they lived for two years.
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.Veloso was born in Santo Amaro da Purifica o, Bahia, the fifth of seven children of Jos Teles Veloso 1901 1983 and Claudionor Viana Teles Veloso 1907 2012 .
His childhood was influenced greatly by artistic endeavors: he was interested in both literature and filmmaking as a child, but focused mainly on music.
The musical style of bossa nova and Jo o Gilberto, one of its most prominent exponents, were major influences on Veloso s music as he grew up.
3 Veloso first heard Gilberto at 17 years old, and describes the musician as his supreme master.
4 He recognizes Gilberto s contribution to Brazilian music as new illuminating the tradition of Brazilian music and paving the way for future innovation.
4 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.
5 1n 1965 he moved again to Rio de Janeiro, with his sister Maria Beth nia, also a musician.
Shortly after the move, Veloso won a lyrics contest for his composition Um Dia and was signed to Philips Records.
6 Beginning in 1967, with collaborators including Beth nia, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Z , andOs Mutantes, Veloso developed Tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant-garde music.
Veloso describes the movement as a wish to be different not defensive like the right-wing Brazilian military government, which vehemently opposed the movement.
Leftist college students also condemned Tropicalismo because they believed it commercialized Brazilian traditional music by incorporating musical influence from other cultures, specifically the United States.
4 Even though Tropicalismo was controversial among traditional critics, it introduced to M sica Popular Brasileira new elements for making music with an eclectic style.
7 Veloso studied philosophy at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, 3 which influenced both his artistic expression and viewpoint on life.
Two of his favorite philosophers were Jean-Paul Sartre andMartin Heidegger.
7 Veloso s leftist political stance earned him the enmity of Brazil s military dictatorship which ruled until 1985 his songs were frequently censored and some banned.
Veloso and Gil spent several months in prison in 1969 and then were sent into exile.
He said that they didn t imprison us for any song or any particular thing that we said, ascribing the government s reaction to its unfamiliarity with the cultural phenomenon of Tropic lia they seemed to say We might as well put them in prison.
8 The federal police detained the two and flew them to an unknown destination.
Finally, Veloso and Gil lived out their exile in London, England.
When Caetano was asked about his experience there he says, London felt dark, and I felt far away from myself.
Nevertheless, the two improved their music there and were asked to make a musical production with the producer Ralph Mace.
7 Musical career 1972 present edit Veloso s work upon his return in 1972 was often characterized by frequent merging not only of international styles but of Brazilian folkloric styles and rhythms as well.
His popularity grew outside Brazil in the 1980s, especially in Israel, Greece, Portugal, France, and Africa.
His records released in the United States, such as O Estrangeiro, helped gain him a larger audience.To celebrate 25 years of Tropicalismo, Veloso and Gilberto Gil released a CD called Tropicalia 2 in 1993.
9 One song, Haiti , attracted people s attention during the time, especially because it included powerful statements about sociopolitical issues present in Haiti and also in Brazil.
Issues addressed in the song included ethnicity, poverty,homelessness, and capital corruption in the AIDS pandemic.
9 10 By 2004, he was one of the most respected and prolific international pop stars, with more than 50 recordings available including songs in film soundtracks of Michelangelo Antonioni s Eros, Pedro Almod var s Hable con ella, and Frida, for which he performed at the75th Academy Awards but did not win.
In 2002 Veloso published an account of his early years and the Tropicalismo movement, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil.His first all-English CD was A Foreign Sound 2004 , which covers Nirvana s Come as You Are and compositions from the Great American Songbook such as Carioca music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Edward Eliscu and Gus Kahn , Always music and lyrics by Irving Berlin , Manhattan music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics byLorenz Hart , Love for Sale music and lyrics by Cole Porter , and Something Good music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers .
Six of the seven songs on his thirdeponymous album, released in 1971, were also in English.Veloso has contributed songs to two AIDS benefit compilation albums produced by the Red Hot Organization: Red Hot Rio 1996 and Onda Sonora: Red Hot Lisbon 1998 .In 2011, he again contributed two songs to the Red Hot Organization s most recent compilation album, Red Hot Rio 2.
The two tracks include Terra Prefuse 73 3 Mellotrons In A Quiet Room Version and Dreamworld: Marco de Canaveses, in collaboration with David Byrne.His September 2006 album, C , was released by Nonesuch Records in the United States.
It won two Latin Grammy Awards, one for best singer-songwriter 11 and one for Best Portuguese Song, N o Me Arrependo .
12 With a total of five Latin Grammys, Veloso has received more than any other Brazilian performer.Veloso has been called one of the greatest songwriters of the century 13 and a pop musician/poet/filmmaker/political activist whose stature in the pantheon of international pop musicians is on a par with that of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and Lennon/McCartney .
6 Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards.
On November 14, 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
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