RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Caetano Veloso, one of Brazil’s best-known singer-songwriters and winner of several Grammy awards, confirmed Wednesday, June 30, on social networks that he will visit three European countries in August during his first international tour since the arrival of the pandemic.
In addition to the presentations announced by the Brazilian artist in Paris, France and Hamburg, Germany on August 26 and 28, he will perform in Brussels, Belgium on August 30.
The winner of two Grammy awards and ten Latin Grammys will perform his greatest hits and some of his latest productions in a concert called “Voice and Guitar”.
With more than fifty albums, Veloso, 78, is known for hits such as “Sozinho”, “Voce é linda”, “Alegría, alegría” and “Nao me arrependo” and for internationally acclaimed albums such as “Fina estampa” and “Livro”.
The artist has also participated in soundtracks for films such as “Hable con ella” (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002) and “Frida” (Julie Taymor, 2002), where he performed, respectively, the songs “Cucurrucucú Paloma” and “Burn It Blue”, the latter with Mexican singer-songwriter Lila Downs.
Veloso is one of the most omnipresent voices in Brazilian music since the end of the bossa nova boom and one of the most emblematic representatives of the so-called Música Popular Brasileira (MPB).
His style, which evolved from bossa nova to MPB, was marked by Tropicalismo, a movement that relaunched Brazilian music during the military dictatorship. The regime banned several of his songs, accused him of subversion, and forced him into exile in London for some years.
Veloso, who also stands out as a music producer and writer, began his career professionally in 1965 with “Cavaleiro/Samba em Paz” and in 1967 released the album “Domingo”, whose success allowed him to meet his idol and father of bossa nova, Joao Gilberto, with whom he worked on several projects.
At the end of last May, the musician announced that he is recording a new album with unreleased songs, almost a decade after his previous album, “Abraçaço”, in 2012.