What a pleasure it is to watch two masters at work. That’s what I kept thinking Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater, where Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil — two aging giants of Brazilian pop whose ...

ESP Summer, the duo of Ian Masters (Pale Saints) and Warren Defever (His Name is Alive), recently released new album ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ and and have now made us a companion playlist… Deerhoof weave ...

Caetano Veloso is consistently one of the most literate and beguiling forces in music. To see him in person is to see a sinuous, warm and joyous show in which Veloso's vocals are backed by a young and ...

Tom Moon says simplicity is beauty in the new live album from Brazilian music legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Sometimes there's beauty in simplicity. That's how music reviewer Tom Moon feels ...

Imagine a musician who is as iconic as the Beatles, as enduring as the Rolling Stones and as political as Bob Dylan. In Brazil, that’s Caetano Veloso, the 72-year-old singer-songwriter, one-time ...

With a passing phrase in “Falso Leblon,” one of the more self-conscious tracks on “zii e zie” (Nonesuch), Caetano Veloso articulates the album’s point precisely. “Mas o meu samba transcende,” he sings ...

Caetano Veloso is in a tight spot. It's Dec. 27, 1968, and the Brazilian musician, visionary and activist is arrested, taken to the army headquarters of Marechal Deodoro in Rio de Janeiro and has his ...

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso, known as Caetano Veloso, is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian composer and singer, called "One of the greatest songwriters of the century", whose voice "carries an ...

While many of his famous Brazilian contemporaries are reissuing hits from their lengthy back catalogs, 64-year-old singer Caetano Veloso stubbornly continues to push himself forward as evidenced on ...