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.
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.
Olhos Nos Olhos
Caetano Veloso Lyrics
uem me chamou Mangueira
Chegou a hora, não dá mais pra segurar
Quem me chamou, chamou pra sambar
Não mexe comigo, eu sou a menina de Oyá
Não mexe comigo, eu sou a menina de Oyá
Raiou, senhora mãe da tempestade
A sua força me invade, o vento sopra e anuncia
Oyá Entrego a ti a minha fé
O abebé reluz axé
Fiz um pedido pro Bonfim abençoar
Oxalá, Xeu Êpa Babá
Oh Minha Santa me proteja, me alumia
Trago no peito o Rosário de Maria
Sinto o perfume, mel, pitanga e dendê
No embalo do xirê, começou a cantoria
Vou no toque do tambor ô ô ô
Deixo o samba me levar, saravá
É no dengo da baiana, meu sinhô
Que a Mangueira vai passar
Voa carcará Leva meu dom ao Teatro Opinião
Faz da minha voz um retrato desse chão
Sonhei que nessa noite de magia
Em cena, encarno toda poesia
Sou abelha rainha, fera ferida, bordadeira da canção
De pé descalço, puxo o verso e abro a roda
Firmo na palma, no pandeiro e na viola
Sou trapezista num céu de lona verde e rosa
Que hoje brinca de viver a emoção
Explode coração
Chegou a hora, não dá mais pra segurar
Quem me chamou, chamou pra sambar
Não mexe comigo, eu sou a menina de Oyá
Não mexe comigo, eu sou a menina de Oyá
Raiou, senhora mãe da tempestade
A sua força me invade, o vento sopra e anuncia
Oyá Entrego a ti a minha fé
O abebé reluz axé
Oxalá, Xeu Êpa Babá
Oh Minha Santa me proteja, me alumia
Trago no peito o Rosário de Maria
Sinto o perfume, mel, pitanga e dendê
No embalo do xirê, começou a cantoria
Vou no toque do tambor ô ô ô
Deixo o samba me levar, saravá
É no dengo da baiana, meu sinhô
Que a Mangueira vai passar
Voa carcará Leva meu dom ao Teatro Opinião
Faz da minha voz um retrato desse chão
Sonhei que nessa noite de magia
Em cena, encarno toda poesia
Sou abelha rainha, fera ferida, bordadeira da canção
De pé descalço, puxo o verso e abro a roda
Firmo na palma, no pandeiro e na viola
Sou trapezista num céu de lona verde e rosa
Que hoje brinca de viver a emoção
Explode coração
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Alexandre Augusto Panzoldo, Braz Almyr Tartarone Filho, Carlos Eduardo Zugliani De Sa, Lacir Alves De Oliveira, Paulo Soares Ramos, Renan Brandao Alves
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Charlles Henrique
Ouvi por anos essa música. Hoje, ouço e choro de felicidade. Encontrei o amor que eu procurava.
MARIA Paixão
Queria dar um amei nesse teu comentario cara. Parabénsfelecidades
Samuel Veiga
Lindoooooo
Laysa Lanouce
Chorei de felicidade com seu comentário, moça. Meus parabéns, que dure pelo menos até o fim de suas vidas ♥️
Vitoria Noquelli
aiiii que lindo 🥰❤️ muita felicidade pra vocês!
Charlis Teixeira
Parabéns isso é raro
Vitor Freitas ®️
esse é o tipo de música q deveria permanecer no nosso Brasil, não essas músicas horríveis q são enfiadas guela abaixo. músicas tem q ter paixão e sentimento.
geonice vieira
Verdade
Ana Neri
Verdade
Marta Gomes
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