Caetano Veloso

[DudeAsInCool]

"Caetano Veloso - Singer, songwriter and eternal bohemian. Seventy-one albums; one grammy; three Latin Grammys; the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame Award, 2001, for his 1967 album Caetano Veloso."

"For nearly 40 years, Caetano Veloso has been devouring cultural influences--from bossa nova and samba to rock, pop, and reggae; from avant-garde poety to cinema novo and radical politics-with astonishing results. IN the late 60s, he helped create Tropicalia, an iconoclastic movement which 'cannibalized' elements of Brazilian and American music and pop culture-and which landed Caetano and co-conspirator Gilberto Gil in prison under Brazail's repressive military dictatorship. Undaunted, Caetano returned to his homeland from exile in London and set off on a path of perpetual transformation. There's been a Fellini-tribute album; the jazzy melange of 1989's Estrangeiro; the 1999 Grammy for best world music album, Livro; and even a book, Tropical Truth; A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil. On his latest record, A Foreign Sound, Caetano sings American classics from Cole Porter to Kurt Cobain, entirely in English" (Vanity Fair, November '04 issue)

[method77]

thanks for reminding me of him Dude

I need to get more of his stuff