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Caetano Veloso  Caetano Veloso (born 7 August, 1942) is one of
the most popular and influential Brazilian composers and
singers.  Veloso was born in Santo Amaro da PurificaÃ§Ã£o,
Bahia, the fifth of the seven children born to JosÃ© Telles
Veloso ("Seu Zezinho") and Claudionor Vianna Telles Veloso
("Dona CanÃ´"). He chose the name for his baby sister (Veloso's
parents's sixth child), named after a famous song of the time
(18 June, 1946) by Nelson GonÃ§alves, Maria BethÃ¢nia. His
sister preceded him to fame as a singer in the mid-1960s.  He
began his career singing bossa nova and he has cited his
greatest musical influences from his early period as JoÃ£o
Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi. (JoÃ£o Gilberto would say later
about Caetano's contribution that it added an intellectual
dimension to Brazilian popular music.) But with such musical
collaborators Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom ZÃ©, Chico Buarque,
and Os Mutantes, and greatly influenced by the later work