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- The event was part of a public backlash against Tropicalia, an artistic movement which developed in Brazil around 1967. Led by singer-songwriters Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the Tropicalists were inspired by the flourishing international rock scene.
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Feb 7, 2022 · “The Truth Commission was one of the main reasons why the old military men went back into politics,” the historian Lucas Pedretti, who discovered Veloso’s file, told me. “It was a breaking ...
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On 23 January 1969, Veloso underwent interrogation by Major Hilton Justino Ferreira, who asked Caetano whether he had sung the national anthem of Brazil to the melody of "Tropicália," to which Caetano responded that it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are decasyllable and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have eight ...
Nov 18, 2021 · Veloso wrote this song in 1968 to protest rampant free speech violations. Three months after presenting this song in a university festival, the military arrested him and shaved his head to humiliate him publicly. Veloso became one of the most vocal protesters of the time.
Aug 1, 2016 · Led by singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso, the Tropicalists subverted the government with psychedelic clothing and electric guitars; from exile, their outlook guided Brazilian rock, pop and soul through the 1970s. Rowan Borchers discovers how this small movement transformed South American music.
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Aug 3, 2024 · Caetano Veloso, Brazilian songwriter and musician who emerged in the 1960s as a major figure in Brazil’s Tropicalia movement. The sensual intelligence of his music, as well as the breadth of traditions from which he drew, made him a national hero and the object of much admiration abroad.
Oct 22, 2021 · He’s renowned for kick-starting tropicalia, one of the most vibrant musical protest movements in history — a style-slash-ethos in which Veloso and his compatriots met the brutality of Brazil ...
Oct 12, 2016 · When a president was ousted and then replaced by an opposition politician, protests broke out across the land. Veloso performed at one such protest in Rio de Janeiro.
