In late April, a haze falls over New York City. 4/20, the day that our nation’s most mellow fellows dedicate to enjoying marijuana in all forms, generally doesn’t prompt its practitioners to ever even ...

Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are titans of Tropicália, a strain of Sixties Brazilian pop (or música popular brasileira) that drew on João Gilberto’s sublime bossa nova, the Beatles’ kaleidoscopic ...

Caetano Veloso (left) and Gilberto Gil in Miami Beach over the weekend. Two Brazilian musical icons performed in South Florida over the weekend. In their heyday they were as important to Latin ...

Now we're going to head to South America. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are two icons of Brazilian music, and they have a new record out. The album looks back on a century of music and their long ...

A significant detour from his shows rooted in sambas, bossa nova and the tropicalia style he created with other artists from the Bahia region of Brazil. The tunefulness of the Beatles, a key ...

Gal Costa, an adventurous musician who was a pivotal figure in Brazil's Tropicália movement in the 1960s, has died. She was 77. Costa, born Maria da Graça Penna Burgos, died Wednesday, according to ...

In 1967, singer/composers Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso introduce a new sound in Brazilian music, inspired as much by Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry as by mellow bossa nova. Along with rock musicians ...

Very rarely do we get to celebrate history with some of the people who made it. But that's exactly the place Jasmine Garsd and I found ourselves in this week's episode of Alt.Latino, when we ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Caetano Veloso will grace the stage at BAM once again next month. The ...

In 1967, Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica put together an installation at Rio de Janeiro's "New Brazilian Objectivity" show featuring sand, trees, gravel, fabric panels and a cage holding two live ...

Two legends of Brazilian music, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, have teamed up for a new album. They've been close friends since the 1960s, when they helped launch the Tropicalia movement in Brazil.

In the contemporary pop realm, the influence of Caetano Veloso and his fellow musical revolutionaries of the 1960s holds a greater sway over contempo artists than that of any musicians from the Latin ...