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Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (born August 7, 1942), better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Grammy Award-winning composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and activism|political activist. He has been called "one of the greatest songwriters of the century"<ref>{{cite news |first=Larry |last=Rohter |authorlink=Larry Rohter |title=A Revolutionary Who's Still on the Move |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06EED61131F934A25752C1A9649C8B63 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |date=2002-11-17 |accessdate=2008-03-22 </ref> and is sometimes considered to be the Bob Dylan of Brazil.<ref name=hour>{{cite news |first=Jason |last=Manning |title=The Life of Caetano Veloso |url=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/veloso/biography.html |work=The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer|Online NewsHour |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service |accessdate=2008-03-22 </ref> Veloso is most known for the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the History of Brazil (1964â€“1985)|military dictatorship in Brazil.

Veloso was born in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil, but moved to Rio de Janeiro as a college student in the mid-1960s. Soon after the move, Veloso won a music contest and was signed to his first record label|label. He was one of the founder... read all