TROPICALIA…a brief history
“Tropicalia is the opposite of bossa nova”. That’s how singer and songwriter Caetano Veloso defined the movement which, along 1968, revolutionized Brazilian Popular Music’s status quo. The trend, led by the guy from Bahia, attracted composers Gilberto Gil and Tom ZÈ, poets Torquato Neto and Capinam, maestro RogÈrio Duprat, the Mutantes, Gal Costa and Nara … Read more
