Caetano Veloso

Personal Info

Known For
Sound
Born
August 7, 1942 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Santo Amaro, Brazil
Popular Genres
Documentary Music Drama
Career Span
– Present

Caetano Veloso

1 win
73 nominations
1 Oscar
133 credits

Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso, better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since.

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Personal Info

Born
Aug 7, 1942
From
Santo Amaro, Brazil
Known For
Sound
Career
– Present

Award Recognition

1
Win
73
Nominations
1
Oscar

Complete Filmography

2025

Ritas as Self (archive footage) Award

2024

Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil
Transe as Caetano
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos as Self
Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi as Self
Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes as Narrator
A Última Vanguarda as Self

2023

They Shot the Piano Player as Self (voice) Award
The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
Môa, Mother Africa Roots as Self (archive footage)
Grupo Corpo Pela Música

2022

Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu as Self (archive footage)
Especial Caetano Veloso 80 Anos as Self
Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer as Self (archive footage)

2021

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina as Self

2020

Numéro un - Demis Roussos as Self
Ney - À Flor da Pele as Self
Race Antenna as Self
Narcissus Off Duty as Self
Caetano Veloso - Live as Self

2019

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa as Self
Antes que Me Esqueçam, Meu Nome É Edy Star as Self
Amigo Arrigo as Self (archive footage)
Fevereiros as Self
Orlamundo as Self

2018

Dê Lembranças a Todos as Self Award
Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes as Self
Emicida: 10 Anos de Triunfo - Ao vivo as Self

2017

Axé: Music of a People as Self
Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End as Self
Gabeira as Caetano Veloso
Barão Vermelho: Por que a gente é assim? as Self (archive footage)
Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas as Self
Jovem aos 50 - A História de Meio Século da Jovem Guarda as Self
Tropicália: 50 Anos as Self (archive footage)

2016

Pitanga as Self
Sobre Noiz as Self
Caetano Veloso - Zii e Zie as Self
Casa de Samba as Self
Roberto Carlos e Caetano Veloso - A Música de Tom Jobim as Self
Guitarra Baiana - A Voz do Carnaval as Self

2015

André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music as Self
Chico: Brazilian Artist as Self (archive footage)
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro as Self
Two Friends, a Century of Music as Self
Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista as Self

2014

Naked Eye as Self (archive footage)
Multishow ao Vivo: Caetano Veloso – Abraçaço as Self

2013

A Farra do Circo as Self

2012

Agamenon: The Film as Self
Tropicália as Self
Music According to Tom Jobim as Self (archive footage)
Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio as Self
Aperana Street 52 as Self
Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust as Self

2011

Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano as Self
Consideração do Poema
Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo as Self
Rock Brasília - Era de Ouro as Self

2010

A Night in 67 as Self
Intrépida Trupe - Será que o Tempo Realmente Passa? as Self

2009

Beyond Ipanema as Self
Wandering Heart as Self
Loki: Arnaldo Baptista as Self (archive footage)

2008

The Man Who Bottled Clouds as Self
Um Barzinho, Um Violão: Novelas Anos 70 as Self - interpreta Moça
Permanent Pan-Cinema as Self
Before and After S. Bernardo as Self
Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia as Self

2007

Fados as Self Award
Pixote In Memoriam as Self Award
Maria Bethânia: Pedrinha de Aruanda as Self
Rita Lee - Biograffiti: Ovelha Negra as Self
Rita Lee - Biograffiti: Cor de Rosa Choque as Self
Grupo Corpo: Dance Theatre from Brazil as Self
Jorge Ben Jor - Energia

2006

Fabricating Tom Zé as Self
Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra as Self
O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento as Self

2005

Vinicius de Moraes as Self - Singer 'Poema dos Olhos da Amada'
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume as Self
Phono 73: A Country and its Music as Self (archive footage)

2004

MPB dos Tempos da Repressão as Self Award
O Baú do Raul - Uma Homenagem a Raul Seixas as Self
Welcome to São Paulo as Narrator
The Miracle of Candeal as Self
Miguel's Destiny as Garçom
Heliorama as Self

2003

Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought as Self
Outros (Doces) Bárbaros as Self
Caetano Veloso – Un Caballero De Fina Estampa as Self

2002

Talk to Her as Singer at Party Award
Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico as Self
Caetano Veloso: Noites do Norte – Ao Vivo as Self
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei as Self
Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino as Self

2001

Samba Riachão as Self
Brazil's Maria Bethânia as Self
Rita Lee: 3001
Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste

2000

Pavarotti & Friends 7 - For Cambodia and Tibet as Self

1999

Orfeu as Cantor Award

1996

Bahia de Todos os Sambas as Self

1995

The Mandarin as Lamartine Babo

1992

Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália as Self
Circuladô

1991

A Embaixatriz do Samba as Self

1989

Sermões Award

1987

Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion as Self

1986

Talking Cinema as Self / Singer "Língua"

1984

New Wave as Caetano Veloso

1983

Tabu as Lamartine Babo
Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família as Self
Corações a Mil

1982

The King of the Candle
Rita Lee & Roberto de Carvalho: O Circo

1981

Brasil as Self
O Mundo Mágico dos Trapalhões as Self

1980

Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque as Self
Fênix as Self

1979

HO as Self

1977

Os Doces Bárbaros as Self

1974

Conteúdo Zero, um Filme para Desentendidos as Self

1973

Loucura e Cultura as Self

1972

Semana de Arte Moderna as himself
The Demiurge as Demiurgo

1970

The Heirs
O Tempo e o Som as Self

1969

Bahia, For Example as Self

1968

A Última Ceia Segundo Ziraldo

1966

Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show as Self

Caetano Veloso in Bahia

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Talk to Her
They Shot the Piano Player

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