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Gilberto Gil, the versatile master of rhythm and jazz, who is backing up his artistic message by becoming Brazil's Minister of Culture; his countryman Caetano Veloso, whose breathtaking range of musicianship makes him a global treasure; and my countryman Jorge Franco, author of the Faulknerian novel Rosario Tijeras, the inspiration for one of my songs...
This spirit, however, came at a price. In December 1968, the military dictatorship passed a law which curtailed freedom of speech and artistic liberty. Shortly thereafter, Gil and Caetano Veloso, another Tropicalist founder, were imprisoned under the pretext that the two had disrespected the national hymn and the Brazilian flag. Their heads were shaved, and they were held in custody for several months. In July of 1969, they were exiled to London...
...Carnegie Hall’s upcoming season alone, the gamut of modern music’s luminaries—from Caetano Veloso and Pierre Boulez to Emmylou Harris, John Cage and Johann Sebastian Bach—will be celebrated in the same space as Adams...
...before tucking himself discreetly behind the President. Gil, 60, knows that in today's new and optimistic Brazil, he's not the headline act. Lula is. "That's no problem," Gil says a few days later in his new office. "I'm always the second guy. Even with Caetano Veloso" - the most famous partnership in Brazilian music - "he's No. 1 and I'm No. 2. I'm quite at ease with it." Gil is also at ease in Brasilia, which is a shock. After all, this is the man who in the 1960s led the musical opposition to Brazil...
...right: Brazilians were mixing local rhythms with international rock styles well before his father, Caetano Veloso, helped pioneer the Tropicalia movement in the '60s. And if Brazil continues to produce albums as delicate and emotionally complex as Music Typewriter, that country's music will occupy as honored a place in the 21st century as it did in the 20th...