Caetano Maria

Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1971) {Philips–Universal 838 561-2 rel 2006}
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© 1971, 2006 Philips / Universal | 838 561-2
MPB / Tropicalia / Folk Rock / Melancholy / Brazilian Traditions

One look at the doleful expression that Caetano Veloso wears on the cover of his third self-titled album, from 1971, and it's clear that the listener is in for a bummer. It's a dead-eyed look that says, "Friend, sit down, have a drink, and listen to my weary tale." And a weary homesick tale it is, for the man who only a few years earlier had been one of the catalysts in a revolution that sent the Brazilian music world on the psychedelic Beatles-lovin' roller coaster of Tropicalia was now living in the U.K. in a government-imposed exile. Gone are the Day-Glo flashes of his earlier albums, replaced by the realism of a revolutionary whose dreams have been shuttered.

Maria Dolores Pradera - Esencia de Mujer: Las Mas Bellas Canciones (2000) {3CD Set BMG Music Spain 74321804652}
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© 2000 RCA / Zafiro / BMG Music Spain | 74321804652
Latin / World / Bolero / Western European Traditions / Tropical

Singer and actress Maria Dolores Pradera was born in Madrid on August 29, 1924. She spent much of her childhood in Chile, her family brought there by her father's business. She began working as an actress on both stage and screen as early as her late teens. Her first major works were the films Yo No Ne Caso in 1944 and Los Habitantes de la Casa Deshabitada in 1946. It was while working on Los Habitantes that Pradera met Fernando Fernan Gómez, whom she would marry in 1947. From there she would perform in various theaters in Spain, France, and Mexico, collaborating with the most important directors of the day.