A living legend of Brazilian music returns to the Bay Area on March 29 when Caetano Veloso headlines Oakland's Paramount Theatre on what is being billed as his farewell U.S. tour for a concert ...
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 ...
Dorival Caymmi, hailed as one of the founders of Brazilian popular music, has died at 94 in Rio de Janeiro, officials said. Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Velloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as ...
The music of Caetano Veloso is sophisticated, eclectic and a little too laid back. Many of the 32 songs on the 60-year-old Brazilian singer-songwriter's "Live in Bahia" are greeted by applause from ...
Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are titans of Tropicália, a strain of Sixties Brazilian pop (or música popular brasileira) that drew on João Gilberto’s sublime bossa nova, the Beatles’ kaleidoscopic ...
In a new documentary, Tropicália legend Caetano Veloso looks back at his 1968 arrest by Brazil’s military dictatorship and how the experience shaped his music. Narcissus Off Duty, directed by Renato ...