Editing Caetano Veloso

{{Short description|Brazilian composer and singer (born 1942)}}
{{For|his eponymous albums}}
{{Portuguese name|Viana|Teles Veloso}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name    = Caetano Veloso
| image   = Caetano Veloso (cropped).jpg
| caption = Veloso in 2019
| alt     = 
| birth_name = 	Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso
| alias   =  
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1942|8|7}}
| birth_place = [[Santo Amaro, Bahia]], Brazil
| alma_mater  = 
| years_active = 1961–present
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Singer-songwriter
* writer
* political activist
}}
| notable_works = 
| signature = Caetano Veloso Signature Vectorized.png
| spouse = {{flatlist|
{{marriage|Andrea Gadelha|1967|1983|reason=divorced}}
{{marriage|Paula Lavigne|1986|2004|reason=divorced}}
}}
| children = 4; including [[Moreno Veloso|Moreno]]
| mother = [[Dona Canô]]
| relatives = [[Maria Bethânia]] (sister)
| awards = 
| module = {{Infobox musical artist
| embed           = yes
| genre           = {{flatlist|
* [[Música popular brasileira|MPB]]
* [[samba]]
* [[bossa nova]]
* [[tropicália]]
* [[folk rock]]
}}
| instrument      = Vocals, guitar
| label           = {{flatlist|
* [[RCA Victor]]
* [[Universal Music]]
}}
| associated_acts = {{flatlist|
* [[Gilberto Gil]]
* [[Maria Bethânia]]
* [[Gal Costa]]
* [[Chico Buarque]]
* [[Os Mutantes]]
* [[Jorge Ben]]
* [[João Gilberto]]
* [[David Byrne]]
}}
| website         = {{URL|caetanoveloso.com.br}}
}}
}}

'''Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso''' ({{IPA|pt-BR|kajˈtɐ̃nu emɐ̃nuˈɛw viˈɐ̃nɐ ˈtɛliz veˈlozu|lang}}; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement [[Tropicália]], which encompassed theatre, [[poetry]] and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the [[Military dictatorship in Brazil|Brazilian military dictatorship]] that [[1964 Brazilian coup d'état|took power]] in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nineteen [[Brazilian Music Awards]], nine [[Latin Grammy Awards]] and two [[Grammy Awards]]. On 14 November, [[Latin Grammy Awards of 2012|2012]], Veloso was honored as the [[Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year]].<ref name="grammy.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204701/http://www.grammy.com/news/caetano-veloso-named-latin-recording-academy-person-of-the-year
|url-status=dead|title=News|date=30 April 2017|archive-date=4 March 2016|website=Grammy.com}}</ref>

Veloso was one of seven children born into the family of José Telles Veloso (commonly known as ''Seu Zeca''), a government official, and [[Dona Canô|Claudionor Viana Telles Veloso]] (known as ''Dona Canô'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iurirubim.blog.terra.com.br/2009/03/20/ba-aos-101-anos-d-cano-velloso-publica-livro-de-memorias/|title=BA: Aos 101 anos, D. Canô Velloso publica livro de memórias|last=Fernandes|first=Bob|work=Terra Magazine|language=pt|date=20 March 2009|access-date=1 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408042910/http://iurirubim.blog.terra.com.br/2009/03/20/ba-aos-101-anos-d-cano-velloso-publica-livro-de-memorias/|archive-date=8 April 2013}}</ref> He was born in the city of [[Santo Amaro da Purificação]], in [[Bahia]], a state in [[northeastern Brazil]], but moved to Salvador, the state capital, as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after that, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first label. He became one of the originators of [[Tropicália]] with several like-minded musicians and artists—including his sister [[Maria Bethânia]]—in the same period. However, the Brazilian military dictatorship viewed Veloso's music and political action as threatening, and he was arrested, along with fellow musician [[Gilberto Gil]], in 1969. The two eventually were exiled from Brazil and went to London where they lived for two years. In 1972, Veloso moved back to his home country and once again began recording and performing. He later became popular outside Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s.

== Biography ==
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Veloso was born in [[Santo Amaro, Bahia|Santo Amaro da Purificação]], Bahia, Brazil, the fifth of seven children of José Teles Veloso (1901–1983) and Claudionor Viana Teles Veloso (1907–2012). His childhood was influenced greatly by artistic endeavors: he was interested in both literature and filmmaking as a child, but focused mainly on music. The musical style of [[bossa nova]] and [[João Gilberto]], one of its most prominent exponents, were major influences on Veloso's music as he grew up.<ref name=manning>{{cite news |first=Jason |last=Manning |title=The Life of Caetano Veloso |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/veloso/biography.html |work=[[The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|Online NewsHour]] |publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service]] |access-date=22 March 2008 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024052051/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/veloso/biography.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Veloso was 17&nbsp;years old when he first heard Gilberto, whom he describes as his "supreme master".<ref name=gross>{{cite news |first=Terry |last=Gross |author-link=Terry Gross |author2=Veloso, Caetano |title=Brazilian Songwriter Caetano Veloso |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=873042 |format=radio |work=[[Fresh Air]] |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |date=10 December 2002 |access-date=16 May 2008 }}</ref> He recognizes Gilberto's contribution to Brazilian music as new—"illuminating" the tradition of Brazilian music and paving the way for future innovation.<ref name=gross/> Veloso moved to the Bahian port city of [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]] as a teenager, the city in which Gilberto lived, and a center of [[Afro-Brazilian]] culture and music.<ref>Wald (2007), p. 118.</ref>

In 1965, Veloso moved again to [[Rio de Janeiro]], with his sister [[Maria Bethânia]], also a musician. Shortly after the move, Veloso won a [[lyrics]] contest for his composition "Um Dia" and was signed to [[Philips Records]].<ref name=amg/> On 21 October 1967, Veloso won fourth prize and gained a standing ovation at the third annual Brazil Popular Music Festival with his song "Alegria, Alegria". on which he was backed by [[São Paulo]] group Beat Boys; along with the performance of his friend [[Gilberto Gil]], who was backed by psychedelic band [[Os Mutantes]], this marked the first time that rock bands had performed at the festival. During this period, Veloso, Bethânia, [[Gilberto Gil]], [[Gal Costa]], [[Tom Zé]], and [[Os Mutantes]] developed "[[Tropicalia|Tropicalismo]]", which fused Brazilian pop with [[rock and roll]] and [[avant-garde]] music. Veloso describes the movement as a wish to be different - not "defensive" like the right-wing [[History of Brazil (1964–1985)|Brazilian military government]], which vehemently opposed the movement. Although Gil and Veloso's performances at the 1967 MBP Festival were rapturously received, within a year, Tropicalismo had become a deeply divisive issue among Brazil's youth audience, with Marxist-influenced college students of the Brazilian left wing condemning Tropicalismo, because they believed it commercialized Brazilian traditional music by incorporating musical influence from other cultures, specifically the United States.<ref name=gross/>

The musical manifesto of the Tropicalist movement was the landmark collaborative LP ''[[Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis]]'' ("Tropicalia: or Bread and Circuses"), issued in mid-1968, which brought together the talents of Veloso, [[Os Mutantes]], [[Gilberto Gil]], [[Tom Zé]] and [[Gal Costa]], with arrangements by avant-garde composer-arranger [[Rogerio Duprat]] (who had studied with [[Pierre Boulez]]) and lyrical contributions from poet [[Torquato Neto]]. The album's group cover photograph depicted the collective holding a variety of objects and images, in a deliberate reference to the cover of The Beatles' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''.
[[File:Caetano Veloso no III Festival da Música Popular.tif|thumb|Caetano Veloso at the III Popular Music Festival, 1967. [[Brazilian National Archives|National Archives of Brazil]].]]
The tensions between the ''Tropicalistas'' and the student left peaked in September 1968 with Veloso's now-legendary performances at the third annual International Song Festival, held at the Catholic University in Rio, where the audience included a large contingent of students who were vehemently opposed to the Tropicalistas. When Veloso (backed by Os Mutantes) performed in the first round of the Festival's song competition on 12 September, he was initially greeted with enthusiastic applause, but the situation soon turned ugly. Dressed in a shiny green plastic suit, festooned with electrical wires and necklaces strung with animal teeth, Veloso provoked the students with his lurid costume, his sensual body movements and his startling new psychedelic music, and the performers were soon being bombarded with loud insults, jeers and boos from the students, who became even more incensed when American pop singer John Dandurand made a surprise appearance on stage during the song.{{fact|date=January 2024}}

The ideological conflict climaxed three days later on 15 September when Veloso returned for the second round of the competition, performing a specially-written new song entitled "É Proibido Proibir" ("[[Il est interdit d'interdire !|It is Forbidden to Forbid]]"). The leftist students began hissing and booing as soon as Veloso's name was announced, and when he began his performance, his overtly sexual stage moves and the experimental music of Os Mutantes again provoked a wild reaction – the students began booing so loudly that the performers could barely be heard, and a section of the crowd then stood up and turned their backs to the stage, prompting Os Mutantes to turn their backs on the audience. As the performance continued, the students pelted the stage with fruit, vegetables, eggs, paper balls and anything else that came to hand. Veloso then stopped singing and launched into an impassioned monologue, in which he excoriated the students for their conservatism. After being joined by Gilberto Gil, who came on stage to show his support, Veloso finished his diatribe by telling the students "...if you are the same in politics as you are in aesthetics, we’re done for!" and declaring he would no longer compete in music festivals. He then deliberately finished the song out of tune, angrily shouted "Enough!" and walked off arm-in-arm with Gil and Os Mutantes. A studio version of the song was later released as a single, and the closing section of the tumultuous live performance featuring Veloso's speech, was issued as the single's B-side.<ref>Victoria Langland, "Il est Interdit d’Interdire: The Transnational Experience of 1968 in Brazil", ''Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe'', Vol. 17, No. 1 (2006).</ref> [103] Even though Tropicalismo was controversial among traditional critics, it introduced to [[Música popular brasileira]] new elements for making music with an eclectic style.<ref name=schnabel>{{cite book |last=Schnabel |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Schnabel |title=Rhythm Planet: The Great World Music Makers |url=https://archive.org/details/rhythmplanetgrea00schn |url-access=registration |year=1998 |publisher=Universe Publishing |location=New York |isbn=0-7893-0238-1}}</ref>

Veloso studied philosophy at the [[Universidade Federal da Bahia]],<ref name=manning/> which influenced both his artistic expression and viewpoint on life. Among his favorite philosophers were [[Jean-Paul Sartre]],<ref name="schnabel" /> [[Martin Heidegger]],<ref name="schnabel" /> and [[Herbert Marcuse]].<ref>{{Citation |title=Narciso Em Férias |url=https://globoplay.globo.com/v/8836951/ |access-date=2023-05-15 |language=pt-br}}</ref> Veloso's [[Anti-authoritarianism|anti-authoritarian]] political stance earned him the enmity of [[Military dictatorship in Brazil|Brazil's military dictatorship]] which ruled until 1985; his songs were frequently [[Censorship under the military dictatorship in Brazil|censored]] and some banned.<ref name="revistapiparote_com_br">{{cite web |last1=Veloso |first1=Caetano |title=Entrevista com Caetano Veloso - Por Marjorie Perloff e Roland Greene |url=https://revistapiparote.com.br/entrevista-com-caetano-veloso-por-marjorie-perloff-e-roland-greene/ |website=Revista Piparote |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=pt-BR |date=25 March 2024}}</ref>

=== Imprisonment and exile ===
In October 1968, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil performed at Sucata club in Rio de Janeiro, with [[Hélio Oiticica|Hélio Oiticica's]] poem-flag {{Lang|pt|[[Seja marginal, seja herói]]}} displayed on stage.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Cámara |first=Mario |date=2016-01-11 |title=El artista plástico Hélio Oiticica: escritor y fotógrafo |url=https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/Outra/article/view/2176-8552.2016n21p93 |journal=Outra Travessia |language=pt |volume=1 |issue=21 |pages=93–104 |doi=10.5007/2176-8552.2016n21p93 |issn=2176-8552|hdl=11336/106342 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso: the story of a friendship |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/gilberto-gil-and-caetano-veloso-the-story-of-a-friendship/egUBi8tjNx-CbQ |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}</ref> The journalist {{Ill|Randal Juliano|pt}} of [[RecordTV]] propagated a story that Caetano and Gil had sung the [[Brazilian National Anthem]] in subversive parody.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Lichote |first=Leonardo |date=2020-09-14 |title=A ditadura brasileira contra Caetano Veloso: os arquivos completos da repressão |url=https://brasil.elpais.com/cultura/2020-09-14/a-ditadura-brasileira-contra-caetano-veloso-os-arquivos-completos-da-repressao.html |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=El País Brasil |language=pt-BR}}</ref> The two musicians were arrested without trial 27 December 1968—shortly after the military state had passed on 13 December [[Institutional Act Number Five]], which suspended [[habeas corpus]].<ref name=":0" /> On 23 January 1969, Veloso underwent interrogation by Major Hilton Justino Ferreira, who asked Caetano whether he had sung the national anthem of Brazil to the melody of "[[Caetano Veloso (1968 album)|Tropicália]]," to which Caetano responded that it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are [[decasyllable]] and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have [[Octosyllable|eight poetic syllables]].<ref name=":0" /> 

Veloso and Gil were both arrested in February 1969 and held in prison for three months, followed by a further four months under house arrest; they were eventually released on condition that they leave the country, and spent the next few years in [[exile]]. He said that "they didn't imprison us for any song or any particular thing that we said," ascribing the government's reaction to its unfamiliarity with the cultural phenomenon of Tropicália—they seemed to say "We might as well put them in prison."<ref>{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Pareles |author-link=Jon Pareles |title=At Lunch with Caetano Veloso; Lots of Rebellion and a Little Hot Sauce For the Spirited Bob Dylan of Brazil |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDF113FF93AA3575AC0A964958260 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=9 September 1992 |access-date=16 May 2008 }}</ref> The federal police detained the two and flew them to an unknown destination. Finally, Veloso and Gil lived out their exile in London, England. When Caetano was asked about his experience there he says, "London felt dark, and I felt far away from myself." Nevertheless, the two improved their music there and were asked to make a musical production with the producer Ralph Mace.<ref name="schnabel" />

==Career==
=== Musical career (1972–present) ===
Veloso's work upon his return in 1972 was often characterized by frequent merging not only of international styles but of Brazilian folkloric styles and rhythms as well. His popularity grew outside Brazil in the 1980s, especially in Greece, Portugal, France, and Africa. His records released in the United States, such as ''[[Estrangeiro]]'', helped gain him a larger audience.
[[File:Caetano cores nomes.jpg|thumb|Caetano in 80s]]
To celebrate 25&nbsp;years of [[Tropicalismo]], Veloso and [[Gilberto Gil]] released a CD called ''Tropicalia 2'' in 1993.<ref name=behague>{{cite journal |last1=Béhague, Gerard |date=Spring–Summer 2006 |title=Rap, Reggae, Rock, or Samba: The Local and the Global in Brazilian Popular Music (1985–95) |journal=Latin American Music Review |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=79–90 |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/latin_american_music_review/v027/27.1behague08.html |doi=10.1353/lat.2006.0021 |first1=Gerard. |s2cid=191430137 |author1-link=Béhague, Gerard }}</ref> One song, "Haiti", attracted people's attention during the time, especially because it included powerful statements about sociopolitical issues present in [[Haiti]] and also in Brazil. Issues addressed in the song included [[Ethnic group|ethnicity]], poverty, [[homelessness]], and capital corruption in the [[AIDS pandemic]].<ref name=behague/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Scheper-Hughes |first=Nancy |author-link=Nancy Scheper-Hughes |author2=Hoffman, Daniel |date=May–June 1994 |title=Kids Out of Place |journal=NACLA Report on the Americas |url=http://www.dreamscanbe.org/Reasearch%2520Page%2520Docs/Scheper-Hughes%2520et%2520al%2520-%2520KIDS%2520OUT%2520OF%2520PLACE.doc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050513152451/http://www.dreamscanbe.org/Reasearch%20Page%20Docs/Scheper-Hughes%20et%20al%20-%20KIDS%20OUT%20OF%20PLACE.doc |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 May 2005 |access-date=22 March 2008 |publisher=[[North American Congress on Latin America|NACLA]] |location=New York |doi=10.1177/0002716201575001008 |volume=575 |page=122}}</ref> By 2004, he was one of the most respected and prolific international pop stars, with more than 50&nbsp;recordings available including songs in film soundtracks of [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]'s ''[[Eros (film)|Eros]]'', [[Pedro Almodóvar]]'s ''[[Talk to Her|Hable con ella]]'', and ''[[Frida (2002 film)|Frida]]'', for which he performed at the [[75th Academy Awards]] but did not win. In 2002 Veloso published an account of his early years and the Tropicalismo movement, ''Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil''.<ref>Veloso, ''Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil'', New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.</ref>

His first all-English CD was ''[[A Foreign Sound]]'' (2004), which covers [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s "[[Come As You Are (Nirvana song)|Come as You Are]]" and compositions from the [[Great American Songbook]] such as "[[Carioca (1933 song)|Carioca]]" (music by [[Vincent Youmans]] and lyrics by [[Edward Eliscu]] and [[Gus Kahn]]), "[[Always (1925 song)|Always]]" (music and lyrics by [[Irving Berlin]]), "[[Manhattan (song)|Manhattan]]" (music by [[Richard Rodgers]] and lyrics by [[Lorenz Hart]]), "[[Love for Sale (song)|Love for Sale]]" (music and lyrics by [[Cole Porter]]), and "[[Something Good (Richard Rodgers song)|Something Good]]" (music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers). Six of the seven songs on his third [[eponym]]ous album, released in 1971, were also in English.

Veloso has contributed songs to two AIDS benefit compilation albums produced by the [[Red Hot Organization]]: ''[[Red Hot + Rio]]'' (1996) and ''[[Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon]]'' (1998).

In 2011, he again contributed two songs to the Red Hot Organization's most recent compilation album, ''[[Red Hot + Rio 2]]''. The two tracks include a remix of "Terra" by [[Prefuse 73]] ("3 Mellotrons in a Quiet Room Version") and "Dreamworld: Marco de Canaveses", in collaboration with [[David Byrne]].

His September 2006 album, ''[[Cê]]'', was released by [[Nonesuch Records]] in the United States. It won two [[Latin Grammy Awards]], one for best singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=726869 |title=Mejor Album Cantautor |access-date=March 22, 2008 |work=[[Univision]].com |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309161618/http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=726869 |archive-date=March 9, 2008 }}</ref> and one for Best Portuguese Song, "Não Me Arrependo".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=675839 |title=Mejor Cancion Brasileña (Idioma Portugues) |language=es |access-date=22 March 2008 |work=[[Univision]].com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327074713/http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=675839 |archive-date=27 March 2008 }}</ref> 

With a total of nine [[Latin Grammy Awards]] and two [[Grammy Awards]], Veloso has received more than any other Brazilian performer. On 14 November, [[Latin Grammy Awards of 2012|2012]], Veloso was also honored as the [[Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year]].<ref name="grammy.com"/>

Veloso has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century"<ref>{{cite news |first=Larry |last=Rohter |author-link=Larry Rohter |title=A Revolutionary Who's Still on the Move |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06EED61131F934A25752C1A9649C8B63 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 November 2002 |access-date=22 March 2008 }}</ref> and "a pop musician/poet/filmmaker/political activist whose stature in the pantheon of international pop musicians is on par with that of [[Bob Dylan]], [[Bob Marley]], and [[John Lennon|Lennon]]/[[Paul McCartney|McCartney]]".<ref name=amg>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p3470/biography|pure_url=yes}} |title=Biography |access-date=22 March 2008 |last=Dougan |first=John |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>

In January 2016, Caetano Veloso was a featured artist at the convention of the [[Modern Language Association]] (MLA), in [[Austin, Texas]]. Before a SRO crowd, he was interviewed on stage by two luminaries in the field of poetry and poetics, Marjorie Perloff (emerita Stanford) and Roland Greene (Stanford, President of MLA at the time).<ref name="revistapiparote_com_br" /> Most of the discussion concerned music, from rock 'n' roll and samba to experimental composition. Videos of the event should be posted at MLA's site and the Stanford Arcade site. He also performed "Isto aqui, o que é?" at the [[2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony]] along with singers [[Anitta (singer)|Anitta]] and [[Gilberto Gil]] after the parade of delegations in August 2016.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Flores|first=Griselda|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/7460998/anitta-rio-olympics-opening-ceremony-interview|title=Anitta 'Never Imagined' She'd Be Performing at Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony|date=3 August 2016|access-date=6 August 2016|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref>

In May 2018, Veloso performed at the Grand Final of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2018|2018 Eurovision Song Contest]] in the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] capital, [[Lisbon]], alongside 2017 winner [[Salvador Sobral]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eurovision.tv/video/salvador-sobral-performs-with-caetano-veloso-at-the-grand-final-of-the-2018-eurovision-song-contest|title=Salvador Sobral performs with Caetano Veloso at the Grand Final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest|website=Eurovision.tv}}</ref> His live album ''Ofertório (Ao Vivo)'' (recorded with his sons Moreno, Zeca and Tom) was ranked as the 25th best Brazilian album of 2018 by the Brazilian edition of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine.<ref name="rsbmelhores18">{{cite magazine |last1=Antunes |first1=Pedro |title=Rolling Stone Brasil: os 50 melhores discos nacionais de 2018 |url=https://rollingstone.uol.com.br/noticia/rolling-stone-brasil-os-50-melhores-discos-nacionais-de-2018/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] Brasil |publisher=Grupo Perfil |access-date=28 December 2020 |language=pt |date=21 December 2018}}</ref>

In 2018 Veloso participated in [[Stefano Bollani]] album "Que Bom" with two songs: "La nebbia a Napoli" and "Michelangelo Antonioni".

In 2023, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked Veloso at number 108 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=1 January 2023|title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/caetano-veloso-2-1234643028/|access-date=25 May 2023|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Veloso married fellow Baiana and actress Andrea Gadelha (or Dedé) on 21 November 1967, in a ceremony that reflected the style of the counterculture era. Their son [[Moreno Veloso|Moreno]] was born on 22 November 1972. On 7 January 1979, their daughter Júlia was born 3 months premature; she died 11 days later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jornalggn.com.br/musica/em-1979-a-morte-de-julinha-filha-de-caetano-e-dede/|title=Em 1979, a morte de Julinha, filha de Caetano e Dedé|first=Luis|last=Nassif|website=Jornalggn.com|date=9 January 2013}}</ref> Veloso separated from Dedé Veloso in 1983. In 1986 Veloso married Rio native [[:pt:Paula Lavigne|Paula Lavigne]], with whom he had two more sons, Zeca Lavigne Veloso, born 7 March 1992, and Tom Lavigne Veloso, born on 25 January 1997, in Salvador. Paula confirmed to Playboy magazine in 1998 that, "[Paula] was 13 years old when she lost her virginity to the musician, who was 40 years old at the time."<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://musica.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2017/10/22/paula-lavigne-fala-sobre-polemica-com-caetano-e-pede-fim-de-ataques-de-odio.htm|title=Mulher de Caetano fala sobre polêmica e pede fim dos ataques do MBL|website=Musica.uol.com.br}}</ref> Caetano has since been accused of [[pedophilia]], as having sex with Paula would be considered [[statutory rape]].<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=SBT |date=2023-11-28 |title=Paula Lavigne e Caetano: o que diz a lei sobre relação sexual com menores de 14 anos? |url=https://sbtnews.sbt.com.br/noticia/justica/267069-paula-lavigne-e-caetano-o-que-diz-a-lei-sobre-relacao-sexual-com-menores-de-14-anos |access-date=2024-12-28 |website=SBT News |language=pt-br}}</ref> This marriage lasted twenty years. After their separation in 2004, the two still worked together. In 2016, the couple reunited.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://revista.cifras.com.br/artigo/o-polemico-relacionamento-de-caetano-veloso-e-paula-lavigne | title=Chamado de pedófilo e aborto aos 16: O polêmico relacionamento de Caetano Veloso com a esposa, Paula Lavigne | date=6 September 2023 }}</ref> Veloso's 1989 CD ''Estrangeiro'' includes songs ("Esse Amor", which means "This Love", and "Branquinha") inspired by and dedicated to, respectively, his ex-wife Dedé and his wife at the time, Paula Lavigne.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caetanoveloso.com.br/biografia.php |title=Caetano Veloso |publisher=Official website |access-date=April 22, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530035227/http://caetanoveloso.com.br/biografia.php |archive-date=May 30, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dicionariompb.com.br/caetano-veloso/biografia |title=Caetano Veloso – Biografia – Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira |website=Dicionariompb.com.br |access-date=April 22, 2013 |archive-date=14 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114015146/http://www.dicionariompb.com.br/caetano-veloso/biografia |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gente.ig.com.br/caetanoveloso/#topoBiografia |title=Caetano Veloso: biografia, fotos, vídeos, notícias – iG |website=Gente.ig.com.br |access-date=April 22, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cinema.sapo.pt/pessoa/caetano-veloso/biografia |title=Caetano Veloso – Biografia – Pessoa – SAPO Cinema |website=Cinema.sapo.pt |access-date=April 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726010312/http://cinema.sapo.pt/pessoa/caetano-veloso/biografia |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Veloso is one of the few public [[Atheism|atheist]] celebrities in Brazil. He was brought up in a religious [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] family but left the faith early on. In an interview Veloso stated that he did not like to "lie to his own intelligence" by believing in God.<ref name=paulopes/> In a separate interview Veloso generated controversy when he said that Brazil would be better off if most people in the country were to become irreligious or atheist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Caetano Veloso sobre o ateísmo|publisher=Diário de uns ateus|url=http://www.diariodeunsateus.net/2009/12/13/caetano-veloso-sobre-o-ateismo/|date=13 December 2009|access-date=7 March 2019|language=pt}}</ref> Despite this, two of Veloso's sons have become members of the neo-Pentecostal [[Universal Church of the Kingdom of God]], with Veloso attending his children's baptism, stating that "what is good for them is good for me."<ref name=paulopes>{{Cite web|title=Caetano Veloso, ateu famoso|url=https://www.paulopes.com.br/2012/01/caetano-veloso-ateu-famoso.html#.XIFox7gnYdU|date=5 January 2012|access-date=7 March 2019|language=pt|website=Paulopes.com.br}}</ref>

In 2022 Veloso talked about his [[bisexuality]] in a show commemorating his 80th birthday.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Caetano Veloso abre jogo sobre bissexualidade: "Uns caras" |url=https://natelinha.uol.com.br/famosos/2022/08/08/caetano-veloso-abre-jogo-sobre-bissexualidade-uns-caras-185690.php |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=NaTelinha |language=pt-br}}</ref>

==Musical style==
[[File:Caetano Veloso em Lisboa 2.jpg|thumb|200px|Veloso performs in [[Lisbon]], Portugal in 2007.]]
Veloso's home, Bahia, has had a decisive role in his music. He praises Bahia for its importance in Brazil's colonial period—when the Portuguese first came—as well as for Bahia's contribution to Brazilian music.  He has cited among his musical influences [[Amália Rodrigues]], [[Cole Porter]], the [[Rolling Stones]] 1969 tour, and above all, [[João Gilberto]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Veloso |first1=Caetano |title=Caetano Veloso 1979 - Sibila |url=https://sibila.com.br/critica/caetano-veloso-1979/3730 |website=Revista Sibila |access-date=27 October 2024 |language=pt-BR |date=4 June 2010}}</ref>

Veloso says that he is unable to make a comparison between his musical style in the 1960s, at the height of Tropicália, and his current work. He does note, however, that he has been able to accomplish music of a higher quality later in his career; that he is "better at everything."<ref name=gross/>

==Discography==
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===Studio albums===
*1967: ''[[Domingo (Caetano Veloso & Gal Costa album)|Domingo]]''
*1968: ''[[Caetano Veloso (1968 album)|Caetano Veloso]]''
*1968: ''[[Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses]]''
*1968: ''Veloso, Gil e Bethânia''
*1969: ''[[Caetano Veloso (1969 album)|Caetano Veloso]]''
*1971: ''[[Caetano Veloso (1971 album)|Caetano Veloso]]''
*1972: ''[[Transa (Caetano Veloso album)|Transa]]''
*1972: ''[[Araçá Azul]]''
*1975: ''[[Qualquer Coisa]]''
*1975: ''[[Jóia (album)|Jóia]]''
*1977: ''[[Caetano... muitos carnavais...]]''
*1977: ''[[Bicho (album)|Bicho]]''
*1978: ''[[Muito (dentro da estrela azulada)|Muito]]''
*1979: ''[[Cinema Transcendental]]''
*1981: ''[[Outras Palavras]]''
*1981: ''[[Brasil (1981 album)|Brasil]]'' ([[João Gilberto]] album featuring Caetano Veloso, [[Gilberto Gil]] and [[Maria Bethânia]])
*1982: ''[[Cores, Nomes]]''
*1983: ''[[Uns (album)|Uns]]''
*1984: ''Velô''
*1985: ''Caetanear''
*1986: ''Caetano Veloso''
*1987: ''Caetano''
*1989: ''[[Estrangeiro]]''
*1991: ''[[Circuladô]]''
*1993: ''[[Tropicália 2]]'' (with Gilberto Gil)
*1994: ''Fina Estampa''
*1998: ''[[Livro]]''
*2000: ''[[Noites do Norte]]''
*2002: ''Eu Não Peço Desculpa'' (with [[Jorge Mautner]])
*2004: ''[[A Foreign Sound]]''
*2005: ''Onqotô''
*2006: ''[[Cê]]''
*2008: ''Caetano Veloso e Roberto Carlos – e a Música de Tom Jobim''
*2009: ''[[Zii e Zie]]''
*2012: ''[[Abraçaço]]''
*2021: ''[[Meu Coco]]''
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===Live albums===
*1968: ''Ao Vivo'' (with [[Os Mutantes]])
*1972: ''Barra 69 ao Vivo na Bahia'' (with [[Gilberto Gil]])
*1972: ''Caetano e Chico – juntos e ao vivo'' (with [[Chico Buarque]])
*1974: ''Temporada de Verão – Ao Vivo na Bahia'' (with [[Gal Costa]] and [[Gilberto Gil]])
*1976: ''[[Doces Bárbaros]]'' (with [[Gal Costa]], [[Gilberto Gil]], and [[Maria Bethânia]])
*1977: ''Bicho Baile Show'' (with [[Banda Black Rio]])
*1978: ''Maria Bethânia e Caetano Veloso ao Vivo'' (with [[Maria Bethânia]])
*1986: ''Totalmente Demais''
*1992: ''Circuladô Vivo''
*1994: ''Fina Estampa ao Vivo''
*1999: ''Prenda Minha''
*1999: ''Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta''
*2001: ''Noites do Norte ao Vivo''
*2002: ''Live in Bahia''
*2007: ''Cê ao Vivo''
*2011: ''MTV ao Vivo – Caetano – Zii e Zie''
*2011: ''Caetano e Maria Gadú Multishow ao Vivo'' (with [[Maria Gadú]])
*2012: ''[[Live at Carnegie Hall (David Byrne and Caetano Veloso album)|Live at Carnegie Hall]]'' (recorded in 2004 with [[David Byrne]])
*2013: ''Abraçaço ao Vivo''
*2016: ''Dois Amigos'' (Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil)
*2018: ''Ofertorio''
*2020: ''Caetano Veloso & Ivan Sacerdote''

===Soundtracks===
*1995: ''[[O Quatrilho]]''
*1996: ''[[Tieta of Agreste]]''
*1999: ''[[Orfeu]]''
*2002: ''[[Talk to Her]]'' (''Hable con ella'') (song "[[Cucurrucucú paloma]]", live)
*2002: ''[[Frida (soundtrack)|Frida]]'' 
*2004: ''[[Meu Tio Matou um Cara]]''
*2004: ''[[Eros (film)|Eros]]'' 
*2006: ''[[Nacho Libre]]''
*2007: ''[[Ó Paí, Ó]]''
*2008: ''Romance''
*2016: ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'' ("Cucurrucucú paloma")

===Compilations===
*1996: ''[[Red Hot + Rio]]'', AIDS-Benefit Album produced by the [[Red Hot Organization]], contributor on track "É Preciso Perdoar"
*1998: ''[[Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon]]'', AIDS-Benefit Album produced by the Red Hot Organization, contributor on track "Dreamworld: Marco de Canaveses"
*2002: ''Todo Caetano'' ([[box set]])
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==Awards and honors==

{{Main|List of awards received by Caetano Veloso}}

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
*Perrone, Charles A. (1989), ''Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB 1965–1985''. Austin: University of Texas Press. Chapter 2 "Other Words and Other Worlds of Caetano Veloso".
*{{cite book |last=Wald |first=Elijah |author-link= Elijah Wald |title=Global Minstrels: Voices of World Music |year=2007 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=New York |isbn=978-0-415-97930-6 }}
*{{cite book |last=Veloso |first=Caetano |title=Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil |year=2003 |publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]] |location=New York }}
*{{cite book |last=Mei |first=Giancarlo |title=Canto Latino: Origine, Evoluzione e Protagonisti della Musica Popolare del Brasile |year=2004 |publisher=Stampa Alternativa-Nuovi Equilibri |language=it }}
*{{cite book |last=Veloso |first=Caetano |title= Alegria, Alegria |year=1997 |publisher=Pedra que Ronca |location=[[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]] }}
*{{cite book |last=Veloso |first=Caetano |title= Verdade tropical |year=1997 |publisher=Companhia das Letras |location=[[São Paulo]], Brazil }}
*{{cite book |last=Veloso |first=Caetano |title= Letra só |year=2003 |publisher=Companhia das Letras |location= São Paulo, Brazil}}
*{{cite book |last=Veloso |first=Caetano |title= O mundo não é chato |year= 2005 |publisher=Companhia das Letras |location=São Paulo, Brazil }}
*{{cite book |title= Crisólogo: O estudante de poesia Caetano Veloso |last=Morais Junior Lui Morais |first=Luís Carlos de |publisher=HP Comunicação |year= 2004 |location=Rio de Janeiro, Brazil}}
* [[Gildo De Stefano|De Stefano, Gildo]], ''Il popolo del [[samba]], La vicenda e i protagonisti della storia della [[Musica popular brasileira|musica popolare brasiliana]]'', Preface by [[Chico Buarque de Hollanda]], Introduction by [[Gianni Minà]], RAI-ERI, Rome 2005, {{ISBN|8839713484}}
* [[Gildo De Stefano|De Stefano, Gildo]], ''Saudade [[Bossa Nova]]: musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi del [[Brazil|Brasile]]'', Preface by [[Chico Buarque]], Introduction by [[Gianni Minà]], [[Firenze]]: Logisma Editore, 2017, {{ISBN|978-88-97530-88-6}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.caetanoveloso.com.br/ Official site]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170217100754/http://www.salvadorcentral.com/profile/caetanoveloso Caetano Veloso Matrix Page]}}
* [http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/veloso.html Caetano Veloso discography ] on Slipcue.com
* [http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/1069417/caetano-veloso-zii-e-zie Caetano Veloso, "Zii e zie"] by [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]
* [http://www.soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/album-guide-caetano-veloso/ Caetano Veloso Album Guide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012214117/http://www.soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/album-guide-caetano-veloso/ |date=12 October 2014 }}
*[http://www.vimeo.com/1690956 Caetano Veloso Performing live]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H44xLqXNQ2Y Caetano Veloso performs "Alegria, Alegria" at the 3rd Festival de Música Popular Brasileira da TV (1967)]
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* {{NYTtopic|people/v/caetano_veloso}}

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