Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late \'60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-and in doing so blew apart the status quo of Brazilian culture.
He lives in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro..
About the Author: Caetano Veloso --musician, filmmaker, poet, and revolutionary-was born in 1942 in Bahia, Brazil.
His most recent album, Live in Bahia , was released to international critical and popular acclaim.
His fame increasing by the year, Caetano focused on writing songs about his homeland, returning to Brazil as a national hero-a mantle he still wears today.
His "rabble-rousing," as the government saw it, would get Caetano and his comrade Gilberto Gil arrested and exiled to London to wait out the military dictatorship.
Caetano and the movement he catalyzed, tropicalia , urged an adoption of personal freedom in politics, music, and lifestyle.
Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late \'60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-and in doing so blew apart the status quo of Brazilian culture
