Tropicália
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Tropicália, also known as tropicalismo, was a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s. It was characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres—notably the union of the popular and the
Gilberto Gil Founding Member of the Movement
Caetano Veloso performing at the third Popular Music Festival, October 21, 1967. Brazilian National Archives.
Gal Costa in 1969. Brazilian National Archives.
Os Mutantes, 1969. Brazilian National Archives.
Caetano Veloso
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Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and political activist. In the late 1960s, he helped develop Tropicália, a Brazilian musical movement that combin
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…paradise". Tropicalia was presented as a "field for reflection on social history". The movement was begun by a group of musicians from Bahia notably Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, and the poet-lyricist Torquato Neto. Later the group moved from Salvador (the capital of Bahia) to São Paulo where…
Veloso in 2019
Caetano in 80s
Veloso performs in Lisbon, Portugal in 2007.