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| '''Caetano Veloso''' (born ], ]) is one of the most popular and influential ]ian ]s and ]s. He was born in ], ], the fifth of the seven children born to José Telles Veloso ("Seu Zezinho") and Claudionor Vianna Telles Veloso ("Dona Canô"). He chose the name for his baby sister (Veloso's parents's sixth child), |
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| He began his career singing ] but soon helped invent a musical style known as ] (musica popular brasileira), moving the sound of Brazilian pop towards a politically activist and socially aware scene, associated with the late ] ] movement and his ] recordings. | He began his career singing ] but soon helped invent a musical style known as ] (musica popular brasileira), moving the sound of Brazilian pop towards a politically activist and socially aware scene, associated with the late ] ] movement and his ] recordings. | ||
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Caetano Veloso (born 7 August, 1942) is one of the most popular and influential Brazilian composers and singers. He was born in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, the fifth of the seven children born to José Telles Veloso ("Seu Zezinho") and Claudionor Vianna Telles Veloso ("Dona Canô"). He chose the name for his baby sister (Veloso's parents's sixth child), who was named after a famous song of the time (18 June, 1946) by Nelson Gonçalves, Maria Bethânia. His sister went on to become a singer almost as famous as him in the 1970s and onwards.
He began his career singing bossa nova but soon helped invent a musical style known as MPB (musica popular brasileira), moving the sound of Brazilian pop towards a politically activist and socially aware scene, associated with the late 1960s hippie movement and his tropicalismo recordings.
Veloso's politically active stance, unapologetically leftist, earned him the enmity of Brazil's military dictatorship which ruled until 1984; his songs were frequently censored, and some were banned. Veloso, and fellow pioneer Gilberto Gil, spent several months in jail for "anti-government activity" in 1968 and eventually exiled themselves to London.
In the 1980s, Veloso's popularity outside Brazil grew, especially in Israel, Portugal, France and Africa. By 2004, he was one of the most respected and prolific Latin pop stars throughout the world, with more than fifty recordings available, including songs in soundtracks of movies such as Pedro Almodovar's "Hable com Ella" (Talk to Her) and "Frida". In 2002 Veloso published an account of the Tropicalia movement, "Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil".
His first recent English CD was A Foreign Sound (2004), which covers Nirvana's song "Come as You Are", as well as other famous songs. Five of the six songs on his third eponymous album, released in 1971, were also in English.