Caetano Veloso - 100% match to Gilberto Gil
Caetano Emanuel Vianna Telles Veloso, 7 August 1942, Santa Amaro da Purifacação, Bahia, Brazil. Veloso has been compared at times to Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Bob Marley - another way of saying he is a cultural icon who has managed to be both a traditionalist and a rebel, often at the same time. In the course of more than 30 years, Veloso has continuously cre Read more 
Gal Costa - 70% match to Gilberto Gil
Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, 26 September 1945, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Costa is the most illustrious female singer of the tropicália movement, a chameleonic performer who has been equal parts hippie, sex symbol, carnival participant and political activist. From the start of her musical career in the mid-60s, she had some pretty illustrious classmates: C Read more 
Elis Regina - 46% match to Gilberto Gil
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, 17 March 1945, Porto Alegre, Brazil, d. 19 January 1982, São Paulo, Brazil. Regarded as one of the finest singers from Brazil, Elis Regina attained legendary status in her native country before her death at age 36. For nearly two decades she was among the most popular performers in Brazil, and while a fierce dedication to her profession bro Read more 
Arnaldo Antunes - 39% match to Gilberto Gil
Arnaldo Augusto Nora Antunes, 2 September 1960, São Paulo, Brazil. Antunes studied at the Colégio Equipe where he showed marked abilities as a musician, composer and writer. He worked on several multi-media projects, including one with Banda Performática, which was recorded in 1980 and for which he and Paulo Miklos composed a prize-winning song. He and M Read more 
Chico Buarque - 39% match to Gilberto Gil
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, 19 July 1944, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of Brazil’s most renowned songwriters, Buarque is both immensely popular and artistically innovative. Although he emerged alongside tropicalista artists such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil during the turbulent 60s, he never adopted their self-conscious, pop-orientated approach or their taste fo Read more 
Djavan - 37% match to Gilberto Gil
27 January 1949, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Djavan’s marriage of traditional South American rhythms with music drawn from Africa and Europe, including rock and pop, has made him successful in North America. Indeed, his music has been named ‘South American Global Pop’ in some quarters although it retains enough ethnic flavour to please its native audience Read more 
Os Mutantes - 37% match to Gilberto Gil
The fact that Os Mutantes was ahead of its time is well illustrated by the fascination of late 90s North American alternative-rockers with the band’s mix-and-match aesthetic. Even in another language, the message is clear: everything’s fair game. For all the tripped-out sounds of the late 60s, there is little to compare to Os Mutantes’ combination of pop packagin Read more 
Luiz Gonzaga - 34% match to Gilberto Gil
13 December 1912, Caicara, Pernambuco, Brazil, d. 2 August 1989, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. The lively dance music of north-east Brazil known as forró was all around Gonzaga during his childhood. He became adept at this fierce and sometimes raw musical form, which has at its core the instrumentation of accordion and percussion, the latter being played chiefly on the Read more 
Lenine - 30% match to Gilberto Gil
Oswaldo Lenine Macedo Pimentel, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Considered one of the most intelligent composers and musicians in Brazil, singer and guitarist Lenine was widely praised during the 90s for his rejuvenation of Brazilian pop. Lenine moved to Rio de Janeiro at 18, carrying with him the roots and rhythms of his home town. Pernambuco is known for maracatu, a syncopated Read more 
Baden Powell - 27% match to Gilberto Gil
6 August 1937, Varre-E-Sai, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, d. 26 September 2000, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A legend of Brazilian guitar, Powell emerged on the cusp of the bossa nova boom, bringing new dimensions to the music by drawing on jazz and classical music, as well as the Afro-Brazilian folklore of the north-east. Named after the founder of the Boy Scouts (Powell’s family Read more 
Rita Lee - 23% match to Gilberto Gil
Rita Lee Jones, 31 December 1947, São Paulo, Brazil. Over the years, Rita Lee has maintained her ‘rock’ image, being marketed and popularly known as Brazil’s Queen of Rock. Among artists with whom she has worked and whose music she has sung are Caetano Veloso, João Gilberto, Elis Regina and Paulo Coleho.Lee’s father w Read more 
Carlinhos Brown - 22% match to Gilberto Gil
Antônio Carlos Santos de Freitas, 1962, Cadeal Pequeno, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. By the early 90s, Brazil was anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new artist who could emulate the legends of the past, somebody able to make a resonant artistic statement on the level of Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil or Caetano Veloso. Those prayers were largely answered by the appearanc Read more 
Hermeto Pascoal - 22% match to Gilberto Gil
22 June 1936, Lagoa da Canoa, Arapiraca, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal’s ability to play any instrument is amazing, regardless of whether it is actually supposed to make music or not. Aside from his mastery of keyboards, saxophone, flute, percussion, guitar, he has also been known to play tea kettle, wooden shoes and the occasional squealing piglet, not to mention his own fl Read more
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