Often described inadequately as the John Lennon or Bob Dylan of Brazil, Caetano Veloso is unquestionably one of the most influential and beloved of Brazilian artists and has developed a worldwide following. Now, in his long awaited memoir, he tells the heroic story of how, in the late sixties, he and a group of friends from the North-eastern state of Bahia created tropicalismo, the movement that shook Brazilian culture and civic order and pushed a nation then on the margins of world politics and economics into the pop avant-garde. Tropical Truth recounts the story of a country, its most subversive generation, and the odyssey of a brilliant constellation of artists. By turns erudite and playful, dreamlike and confessional, Tropical Truth is a revelation of Brazil's most famous artist, one of the greatest popular composers of the past century.
Veloso Caetano Knihy
Caetano Veloso je uznávaný skladateľ, spevák a gitarista, ktorého hudba je definovaná inovatívnym prístupom a hlbokou lyrikou. Ako kľúčová postava brazílskeho hnutia Tropicalismo spájal hudbu s divadlom a poéziou, čím spochybňoval dobové konvencie. Jeho tvorba, často provokatívna a politicky angažovaná, si získala celosvetové uznanie pre svoju originalitu a intelektuálnu hĺbku. Velosova schopnosť reflektovať spoločenské otázky prostredníctvom univerzálnych tém z neho robí jednu z najdôležitejších postáv modernej hudby.
