OTHER WORDS: SIX TIMES CAETANO, Tom Cardoso

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Irreverent and provocative like its subject, Outras palavras reconstructs the life and work of one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time.

Caetano Veloso is one of the greatest symbols of Brazilian popular music and culture. Multifaceted, transgressive and committed, he has gathered a legion of fans over decades of career, eager for his prolific and spectacular production, led movements and never failed to take a political stance.

The youth in Santo Amaro, carried away by the films of Federico Fellini, the short stories of Clarice Lispector and the LP Chega de saudade, by João Gilberto; the false antagonism with Chico Buarque, a musical rivalry manufactured by the press, and the clashes with the militancy; the new musical poetics of Tropicália; the avant-garde aesthetics and its experiments; the involvements and disappointments with political projects; and the many romantic entanglements that inspired – openly or not – some of the most beautiful compositions in Brazilian music: in Outras palavras, journalist Tom Cardoso invokes Caetano's spirit of leadership in our music, his intellectual independence and his impressive ability to remain in the spotlight for decades on end.

In six thematic chapters - the man from Santo Amaro, the controversialist, the leader, the avant-garde, the lover and the politician -, the author brings together testimonies, interviews and extensive bibliographical research to present the reader with a multiple portrait of a chameleon of Brazilian popular culture.

On the blurb of this book, Rodrigo Faour (researcher and author of História da música popular brasileira sem preconceitos) defines the artist as follows: “A Narcissus advocating for the devil, amidst right-wing and left-wing extremism, of squares and slackers, with his way of 'being and being' on stage and in life, breaking conventions and prudishness on various levels, including the cruelest of all: standardized speech.”