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 ...