Os Mutantes

Os Mutantes The group Os Mutantes blended psychedelic rock with bossa nova and other musical forms to give Brazil’s tropicalismo (also called tropicalia) movement of the 1960s and early 1970s its most countercultural expression. Brothers Arnaldo Dias Baptista (b. July 6, 1948) and Sérgio Dias Baptista (b. December 1, 1951) grew up in a musical household in São Paulo, learning to play several instruments. In 1964, Arnaldo, playing guitar, recruited flautist and singer Rita Lee (b. December 31…