- Born
- Birth nameCaetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso
- Nicknames
- The Father of Tropicália
- The Bob Dylan of Brazil
- Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On November 14, 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- SpousesPaula Lavigne(1986 - December 7, 2004) (divorced, 2 children)Andréa Gadelha(1967 - 1986) (divorced, 2 children)
- Brother of singer Maria Bethânia, Clara, Isabel, Rodrigo, Roberto, Nicinha (adopted) and Irene (adopted).
- Uncle of Bella Veloso
- Chidren: Moreno Veloso [b. 22 November 1972] and Júlia [b. 7 January 1979 d. 1979], with Andréa Gadelha, and Zeca Veloso [b. 7 March 1992] and Tom Veloso [b. 25 January 1997], with Paula Lavigne.
- Good friend of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Veloso appears briefly in Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002).
- He lived in London, England for three years in the late 60s - early 70s after he and friend Gilberto Gil were exiled from Brazil by the military dictatorship. Both men returned to Brazil as cultural heroes.
- The status of popular Brazilian music in a worldwide perspective changed when bossa nova reached the world through the United States. That was in the early 60s. The film Black Orpheus (1959) had a lot to do with that, although it was not a good film - in Brazil we don't like that one. But the music was fantastic, and for most foreigners it was the first encounter with bossa nova.
- My role is to change people's minds.
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