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Caetano Veloso

A key member of the counter-culture movement in Brazil in the 1960s, Caetano Veloso was a pop provocateur who championed experimental art forms and radical philosophical and political ideas, but later became recognised as one of the country's great songwriters and composers. Born in a small north eastern town in Bahia, Veloso first discovered the bossa nova music of Joao Gilberto alongside a wealth of Afro-Brazilian sounds when he moved to the port city of Salvador at 17-years-old, and soon made his way to Rio de Janiero, where his sister Maria Bethania had begun a successful ...