| Recanto | ||||
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| Released | December 9, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop, MPB, Tropicália, electronic, experimental | |||
| Label | Universal Music (CD – 2011) | |||
| Producer | Caetano Veloso [1] | |||
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Recanto is an album by Brazilian singer Gal Costa, released in 2011. The album was written and produced by Caetano Veloso. [2]
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On November 14, 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, was a Brazilian artistic movement that arose in the late 1960s. It was characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres—notably the union of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as the melding of Brazilian tradition and foreign traditions and styles. Today, Tropicália is chiefly associated with the musical faction of the movement, which merged Brazilian and African rhythms with British and American psychedelia and pop rock. The movement also included works of film, theatre, and poetry.
Eduardo de Góes "Edu" Lobo is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and composer.
Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, known professionally as Gal Costa, was a Brazilian singer of popular music. She was one of the main figures of the tropicalia music scene in Brazil in the late 1960s and appeared on the acclaimed compilation Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses (1968).
Maria Bethânia Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, she started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião" ("Opinion"). Due to its popularity, with performances all over the country, and the popularity of her 1965 single "Carcará", the artist became a star in Brazil.
Celso Fonseca is a Brazilian composer, producer, guitarist and singer. He is noted as part of the Música popular brasileira since the 1980s, initially as accompanist and composer, then producer, and since the mid–1990s as an artist in his own right.
Caetano Veloso is the debut solo album by the artist of the same name, released in Brazil in 1968. He had released Domingo the year before in collaboration with Gal Costa. It was one of the first Tropicália efforts, and features arrangements by Júlio Medaglia, Damiano Cozzella, and Sandino Hohagen, as well as an eclectic assortment of influences, demonstrating the "antropofagia" of the Tropicália movement. Sounds from psychedelia, rock, pop, Indian music, bossa nova, Bahian music and other genres appear on the album. It includes the hit songs "Alegria, Alegria", "Tropicália", and "Soy loco por ti, América".
Domingo is the debut studio album by Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso. It was released on Philips Records in 1967.
Caetano Veloso is the third self-titled album by Caetano Veloso. It was recorded in England, when the artist was in an exile imposed by the Brazilian government of the time for being subversive. It is mostly sung in English and portrays a sad tone throughout, reflecting his feelings about homesickness and the absence of his family and friends. It was released first in Europe, and then in Brazil, in 1971.
cê is an album by Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Caetano Veloso. Released on 1 September 2006 on Mercury Records, the album took its title from the colloquial Portuguese word meaning you. It was written with Veloso's band in mind, which was chosen in part by guitarist Pedro Sá. cê received positive critical commentary; several critics specifically noted the album's lyrical focus on human sexuality.
Doces Bárbaros is a 1976 album by the Música popular brasileira supergroup of the same name. It was recorded June 24 of that year at Anhembi Stadium in São Paulo. Its members were Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, four of the biggest names in the history of the music of Brazil. The band was the subject of a 1977 documentary directed by Jom Tob Azulay. In 1994, they performed a tribute concert to Mangueira school of samba.
Estrangeiro is a 1989 album by the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso. It was produced by Peter Scherer and Arto Lindsay and features Naná Vasconcelos, Carlinhos Brown, Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot. Robert Christgau named it 27th on "The 1989 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll" of best albums released in that year.
Caras e Bocas is an album by Brazilian singer Gal Costa released in 1977.
Muito is an album by Brazilian singer and composer Caetano Veloso, released in 1978. The song "Sampa", which describes Veloso's first impressions of São Paulo city, was voted by the Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone as the 42nd greatest Brazilian song.
Água Viva is an album by Brazilian singer Gal Costa, released in 1978. The album contains hits such as "Paula e Bebeto", which was included in the soundtrack of the Brazilian TV series, Malu Mulher.
Livro is an album by Caetano Veloso, released through the record label Nonesuch in 1998. In 2000, the album earned Veloso the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album and a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year, in addition to winning the Latin Grammy Award for Best MPB Album.
The 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the fifth time the awards was held at this venue and in Las Vegas. It also marks the last year in the Latin Recording Academy's contract where the Mandalay Bay Events Center hosted. It is unknown if the awards will continue to be held at this location beyond 2012.
Live at Carnegie Hall is a 2012 collaborative album recorded by Brazilian artist Caetano Veloso and Scottish-American alternative rock musician David Byrne at New York City's Carnegie Hall as a part of their 2004 Perspectives series. Veloso was invited to curate a performance and he invited Byrne, who in turn performed a solo set of his own as well as collaborative work between them. The album was released on Nonesuch Records on March 12, 2012.
Festival is an album by American jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour that was released in 1988 by GRP Records. The album is a collaboration between musicians from New York City, Los Angeles, and Brazil. Festival reached No. 3 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart.
Gal Costa is the first solo album by the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, released in 1969. It was ranked the 80th best Brazilian album of all time by the Brazilian Rolling Stone magazine.
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