The singer agreed to interrupt his “radical vacation” to perform at the event this Sunday
In December 2023 the singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso took to social media to announce a “radical holiday.” Caetano, at that time returning from a long tour for the album My coconuthe wrote: “do not invite me to public activities, give interviews or express opinions.”
Since then Caetano has remained in his home in Bahia. And it was there that he was convinced to leave his holidays to present the show Fuck you this Sunday, 28th, at Salvador summer festival.
Zé Ricardo, artistic director of the festival, said he went to Caetano’s house accompanied by the composer’s wife, the entrepreneur Paula Lavigne.
He asked Paula what she thought about inviting Caetano to present Transa at the Summer Festival: “I’m not going, you go”, the businesswoman allegedly told Zé Ricardo.
Armed with courage and enjoying the intimacy he has with Caetano, Zé Ricardo sat next to the composer on the sofa and asked:
“Caetano, let’s do what Fuck you in Bahia?”
“Don’t tell me about it, Zé!”, warned Caetano.
Afterwards, says Zé Ricardo, they both burst out laughing.
“If he laughed it’s because he will,” Paula Lavigne would later analyze.
Negotiations advanced and Caetano’s show was divided between the presentations of Leo Santana who invites Luísa Sonza and Seu Jorge who invites Mano Brown.
The fact that Caetano had not yet presented the show commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the album weighed on the decision. Fuck you in Salvador – only in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, as Caetano is reluctant to turn it into a tour.
“This further reinforces the great love that Caetano has always had for the Bahian public,” says Zé Ricardo.
Recorded in London while Caetano was in exile, the album Fuck you was released in 1972. The album is one of the outliers in the composer’s work. With the musical direction of Jards Macalé, Transa mixes reggae, rock and Bahian music.
Macalé will be with Caetano on the stage of the Summer Festival, as well as musicians Tutty Moreno and Aureo de Souza, who participated in the original recording.
Angela Roro, who played the harmonica on the track Nostalgia and those who participated in the exhibition in Sao Paulo will not be present at the presentation in Salvador.
Caetano inaugurated a new attraction of the festival: the “historic moment”, a special show that must be announced just 15 days before each edition.
Source: Terra
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