Caetano Emanoel Viana Teles Veloso (born August 7, 1942 in Santo Amaro, Bah… Read Full Bio ↴Caetano Emanoel Viana Teles Veloso (born August 7, 1942 in Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil), professionally known as Caetano Veloso, is a singer, composer, musician, producer, arranger, writer and political activist, being one of the most popular and influential Brazilian MPB artists of all time. With a career that exceeds five decades, Caetano has built a musical work marked by renewal and widely considered to possess great intellectual and poetic value.

Veloso is the fifth of the seven children born to José Telles Veloso ("Seu Zezinho") and Claudionor Vianna Telles Veloso ("Dona Canô"). His younger sister Maria Bethânia, another popular and renowned artist in Brazil, preceded him to fame as a singer in the mid-1960s. He began his career around 1965 singing bossa nova and he has cited his greatest musical influences from his early period as João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi. (João Gilberto would say later about Caetano's contribution that it added an intellectual dimension to brazilian popular music.) But with such musical collaborators Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, Chico Buarque, and Os Mutantes, and greatly influenced by the later work of The Beatles, developed tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant garde art music resulting in a more international, psychedelic, and socially aware sound. Veloso's politically active stance, unapologetically leftist, earned him the enmity of Brazil's military dictatorship which ruled until 1985; his songs were frequently censored, and some were banned. Veloso was also alienated from the socialist left in Brazil becasue of his acceptance and integration of non-nationalist influences (like rock and roll) in his music. Veloso and Gilberto Gil spent several months in jail for "anti-government activity" in 1968 and eventually exiled themselves to London. Caetano Veloso's work upon his return in 1972 was often characterized by frequent appropriations not only of international styles, but of half-forgotten Brazilian folkloric styles and rhythms as well. In particular, his celebration of the Afro-Brazilian culture of Bahia can be seen as the precursor of such Afro-centric groups as Timbalada.

In the 1980s, Veloso's popularity outside Brazil grew, especially in Israel, Portugal, France and Africa. By 2004, he was one of the most respected and prolific international pop stars, with more than fifty recordings available, including songs in soundtracks of movies such as Pedro Almodovar's Hable con Ella (Talk to Her), and Frida. In 2002 Veloso published an account of his early years and the Tropicalia movement, Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil.

His first all-English CD was A Foreign Sound (2004), which covers Nirvana's "Come as You Are" and compositions from the Great American Songbook. Five of the six songs on his third eponymous album, released in 1971, were also in English.

Maluco beleza
Caetano Veloso Lyrics

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Enquanto você se esforça prá ser
Um sujeito normal
E fazer tudo igual

Eu do meu lado, aprendendo a ser louco
Um maluco total
Na loucura real

Controlando a minha maluquez
Misturada com minha lucidez
Vou ficar
Ficar com certeza
Maluco beleza

Este caminho que eu mesmo escolhi
É tão fácil seguir
Por não ter onde ir

Controlando a minha maluquez
Misturada com minha lucidez
Vou ficar
Ficar com certeza

Maluco beleza
Eu vou ficar.....

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Caetano Veloso's "Maluco Beleza" speak of a person who chooses a path different from what society expects of them. While everyone else strives to be a "normal" person and follow the norm, the singer chooses to embrace his madness and become a complete lunatic in the real sense. He wants to control his craziness, yet he also wants to mix the madness with sanity to create some sense of balance. He selects a different path that offers ease to follow because there's nowhere to go and nothing to lose by doing so. He prefers to be a "Maluco beleza," translating to "mad beauty" in English, and remain crazy beautifully.

The lyrics here talk about personal freedom and the desire to embrace individuality. The singer chooses to be different and expresses the importance of embracing one's own eccentricity. The lyrics also suggest that there is beauty in madness, and it's not something to be hidden away. Delving deeper, the song implies the desire to break away from societal norms and the constraints that come with them, especially in Brazil during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, when the song was released.

Line by Line Meaning

Enquanto você se esforça prá ser
While you make an effort to be

Um sujeito normal
A normal subject

E fazer tudo igual
Doing everything the same

Eu do meu lado, aprendendo a ser louco
On my side, learning to be crazy

Um maluco total
A total crazy person

Na loucura real
In the real madness

Controlando a minha maluquez
Controlling my craziness

Misturada com minha lucidez
Mixed with my lucidity

Vou ficar
I will stay

Ficar com certeza
Stay for sure

Maluco beleza
Crazy beauty

Este caminho que eu mesmo escolhi
This path that I myself chose

É tão fácil seguir
Is so easy to follow

Por não ter onde ir
Because I have nowhere else to go

Eu vou ficar
I will stay

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