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Caetano Veloso

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born

August 07, 1942 in Brazil

gender

male

website

http://www.caetanoveloso.com.br/site/

genre

Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

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Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Velloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century"[1] and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil.[2] Veloso is most 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.

Veloso was born in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the founders of T...more

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Books by Caetano Veloso

Average rating: 3.83 · 151 ratings · 26 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Tropical Truth: A Story Of Music And Revolution In Brazil 3.87 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	O Mundo Não é Chato by Caetano Veloso, Eucanaã Ferraz 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	A Imagem Do Som de Caetano Veloso: 80 Composicoes de Caetano Veloso Interpretadas Por 80 Artistas Contemporaneos 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Caetano Veloso 67-74 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro by Patrick Neate, Caetano Veloso (Foreword), Damian Platt 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	As Cem Melhores Crônicas Brasileiras by Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos (Organizador), Machado de Assis, Rubem Braga 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Três Vidas by Gertrude Stein, Vanessa Barbara (translator), Flora Süssekind (commentary) 3.24 avg rating — 1,105 ratings — published 1909 — 47 editions	My rating:
	Folha Conta 100 anos de Cinema by Amir Labaki (Organizador), Glauber Rocha, Arnaldo Jabor 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Brazil Incarnate by Christopher Pillitz (Photographer), Paul Theroux, Caetano Veloso 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Estacion Brasil: Conversaciones Con Musicos Brasilenos by Violeta Weinschelbaum, Caetano Veloso (Prologue by) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	My rating: