Caetano Veloso

Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist

Born: 7 August 1942, Santo Amaro
Age: 84

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Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and political activist. In the late 1960s, he helped develop Tropicália, a Brazilian musical movement that combined Brazilian popular music with rock and roll and avant-garde influences. Along with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, and Os Mutantes, he participated in the 1968 collaborative album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis, which became a musical manifesto of the movement.

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