Beyond the Bossa Nova

Spinning on Air | May 18, 2010

Brazil's brand new Minister of Culture is composer and singer Gilberto Gil, who says he's now "gone from being the stone thrower to the glass." Back in the Sixties he and fellow musician Caetano Veloso were exiled from Brazil by the military dictatorship. They had founded the Tropicalia movement, a style of music and thinking that challenged all assumptions. Gil and Veloso made--and continue to make--a kind of intelligent, experimental pop that has no match in the U.S. Host David Garland offers some of their recordings, along with related Brazilian music by Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, Gal Costa, Tom Ze, and the man who inspired them, Joao Gilberto.
Gilberto Gil bio, discography, news, and more
Caetano Veloso bio, discography, news, and more

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