Topic: Caetano Veloso

Peter Margasak, Reader music critic . . Gal Costa, Recanto The grand dame of tropicalia shakes off mainstream samba and bossa nova to deliver a...
Tweet . THINK of Brazilians, and a dizzying palette comes to mind. Half a millennium of mingling by Africans, Europeans and indigenous Indians gave...

This weekend's live music picks

0 . Here are The Chronicle's picks for nightclub happenings this weekend. . . Compiled by Kimberly Chun, Tony DuShane and Andrew Gilbert.. Ivan...
For the last 20 years, the "Red Hot" organization has curated impeccably cast, all-star compilation albums mining every genre from freak folk to...

Dori Caymmi

Dorival Tostes Caymmi (born August 26, 1943)Allmusic biography is a Brazil ian singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and producer who is a two-time Grammy Award winner (Best Latin Song and Best Latin Samba Recording).Dori is the son of Dorival Caymmi and ...

Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso is a influential Tropicalia , a avant-garde style that was originally considered to be extremely controversial. Veloso's songs were often banned and censored due to the political nature of his lyrics.
Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, the epically inventive engineer of Brazilian psychedelia, Tropiclia, deserves to live in some volcano with poodle fur wallpaper, a milkshake bathtub, corn syrup carpets and his 60s backup band Os Mutantes perpetually playing live.But the ...

Gilberto Gil's Duetos

Gilberto Gil has been a star in the Brazilian musical firmament for 4 decades and, with Duetos, he delivers an album of duets with other fine artists from Brazil's vast resevoir of superior performers. ProsDuets highlight 20 years of popular Brazilian ...

List of Latin Grammys winners

List of Winners at the 8th Annual Latin Grammy AwardsList of winners at Thursday's 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards:Record of the year: "La Llave De Mi Corazon," Juan Luis Guerra y 440.Song of the year: "La Llave De Mi ...