From the beginning, with his devotion to João Gilberto, until the meeting with the new generations, passing through Tropicália and the 80s, Gal was absorbed by all languages
the voice of Gal Costa it was a milestone in Brazilian music. The way it easily reached the higher regions and its crystal clear timbre have become one of MPB’s strongest artistic identities since the 1960s and its power to break standards when well directed was its hallmark. In Sundayhis first album, 1967, Gal was directed by Caetano Veloso🇧🇷 There was an affirmation of his obsession with Joao Gilberto at the same time that the two pointed to the continuation of a modernized Joaogilberian singing lineage. wandering heart🇧🇷 veranda🇧🇷 One day and your own Sunday, with string arrangements, they made their beautiful debut, but did not fully reveal it. Gal had more to show.
A year later, Gal established herself as the female voice of tropicalists, something that put her alongside the group that renewed Brazilian music. She appeared in three moments on the collective album Tropicália – Panis et Circencissinging Courage Mom (by Caetano Veloso and Torquato Neto), Industrial area (by Tom Ze), Until your wolf comes (by Caetano) and, something that would fix his image more strongly, Baby (also by Caetano Veloso). Baby it would be on his 1969 album, considered his first solo, with an increasingly solid personality. Not identified🇧🇷 Sebastian🇧🇷 Divine Wonderful and also Roberto’s soul, if you think, still with the provisions of the wind that had marked the previous decade, show that the passage through Tropicália was a path of no return. Gal was not bound by defined fields.
His discography traces important political moments in the country. Fatal – Gal at full steam, since 1971, shows the recording of one of the performances performed at the Tereza Raquel Theater, in Rio, directed by Waly Salomão. Without his companions Gil and Caetano, exiled to London, Gal was building another essential point of his growth. An album released with imperfections, but with the soul of the show, showing the singer, once again, expanding her field of action, remembering Ismael Silva, Jorge Ben, Luiz Melodia (Black Pearl it was a blast) and Jards Macalé with Waly Salomão himself (cheap steam is success). They left that moment Like Two and Twoby Caetano, e your stupidityby Roberto and Erasmo.
Gal managed to get in and through the 80s with major victories. Unlike the artists who at the beginning of the decade struggled to cross the technological portal imposed by the new radio aesthetic (FM radios became a new filter), Gal was immediately absorbed. His 1981 album is a classic of the times, with sing Brazil🇧🇷 My good, my bad🇧🇷 One piece is missing; and the eternal Fit comes from within🇧🇷 Gal was all over the radio, on soap operas and releasing albums that were almost always flawless.
As soon as 2011 arrived, when Gal seemed to have nothing more to prove, Caetano returned to direct an entire album. The result was angle, with a singer who seemed to reposition herself aesthetically. But Gal was only returning to be herself, unpredictable, unrepeatable, abandoning the expectations they had about what her album could be to give herself to a noisy and often difficult sound also as a harmonic basis for her voice. Her tone and her high pitch were already gaining another body, but her soul continued to produce every note she chose to be the perfect note.
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