Veloso Caetano (Book order)

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Caetano Veloso is a celebrated composer, singer, and guitarist whose music is defined by an innovative approach and profound lyricism. As a pivotal figure in the Brazilian Tropicalismo movement, he blended music with theater and poetry, challenging contemporary conventions. His work, often provocative and politically engaged, has garnered international acclaim for its originality and intellectual depth. Veloso's ability to reflect societal issues through universal themes makes him one of modern music's most significant voices.

Tropical Truth

368 pages
13 hours of reading

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Often described inadequately as the John Lennon or Bob Dylan of Brazil, Caetano Veloso is unquestionably one of the most influential and beloved of Brazilian artists and has developed a worldwide following. Now, in his long awaited memoir, he tells the heroic story of how, in the late sixties, he and a group of friends from the North-eastern state of Bahia created tropicalismo, the movement that shook Brazilian culture and civic order and pushed a nation then on the margins of world politics and economics into the pop avant-garde. Tropical Truth recounts the story of a country, its most subversive generation, and the odyssey of a brilliant constellation of artists. By turns erudite and playful, dreamlike and confessional, Tropical Truth is a revelation of Brazil's most famous artist, one of the greatest popular composers of the past century.