Veloso, Caetano

Veloso, Caetano * August 7, 1942Veloso, CaetanoCaetano Veloso Bringing rock music to his native country and melding it with traditional forms and protest lyrics to form a distinctive style of his own, Caetano Veloso has well earned the sobriquet »Bob Dylan of Brazil,« and he exercises a similar influence over Brazilian musicians of his generation and beyond. Veloso was born into an intellectual family in a small town in northeastern Brazil, where he developed an early interest in philosophy and…