Caetano Veloso

Personal Info

Birthday

August 7, 1942

(83 years old)

Place of Birth

Santo Amaro, Brazil

Caetano Veloso

Biography

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.

Known For

Tabu

Talk to Her

New Wave

Orfeu

Welcome to São Paulo

The Mandarin

Gabeira

The Demiurge

Filmography

2025
Ritas
as Self (archive footage)
Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
as Self
Transe
as Caetano
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
as Self
Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes
as Narrator
A Última Vanguarda
as Self
2023
They Shot the Piano Player
as Self (voice)
Môa, Mother Africa Roots
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
as Self (archive footage)
Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
as Self (archive footage)
Especial Caetano Veloso 80 Anos
as Self
2021
Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina
as Self
2020
Race Antenna
as Self
Ney - À Flor da Pele
as Self
Narcissus Off Duty
as Self
Caetano Veloso - Live
as Self
Numéro un - Demis Roussos
as Self
2019
Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
as Self
Orlamundo
as Self
Amigo Arrigo
as Self (archive footage)
Fevereiros
as Self
Antes que Me Esqueçam, Meu Nome É Edy Star
as Self
2018
Emicida: 10 Anos de Triunfo - Ao vivo
as Self
Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes
as Self
Dê Lembranças a Todos
as Self
2017
Gabeira
as Caetano Veloso
Tropicália: 50 Anos
as Self (archive footage)
Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
as Self
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
Axé: Music of a People
as Self
2016
Pitanga
as Self
Sobre Noiz
as Self
Roberto Carlos e Caetano Veloso - A Música de Tom Jobim
as Self
Casa de Samba
as Self
Caetano Veloso - Zii e Zie
as Self
Guitarra Baiana - A Voz do Carnaval
as Self
2015
Chico: Brazilian Artist
as Self (archive footage)
Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
as Self
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
as Self
Two Friends, a Century of Music
as Self
André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
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
Tropicália
as Self
Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio
as Self
Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
as Self
Aperana Street 52
as Self
Agamenon: The Film
as Self
2011
Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
as Self
Rock Brasília - Era de Ouro
as Self
Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo
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
Permanent Pan-Cinema
as Self
Before and After S. Bernardo
as Self
Um Barzinho, Um Violão: Novelas Anos 70
as Self - interpreta Moça
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
as Self
Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia
as Self
2007
Fados
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
Pixote In Memoriam
as Self
Maria Bethânia: Pedrinha de Aruanda
as Self
2006
O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
as Self
Fabricating Tom Zé
as Self
Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
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
The Miracle of Candeal
as Self
Welcome to São Paulo
as Narrator
MPB dos Tempos da Repressão
as Self
O Baú do Raul - Uma Homenagem a Raul Seixas
as Self
Heliorama
as Self
Miguel's Destiny
as Garçom
2003
Caetano Veloso – Un Caballero De Fina Estampa
as Self
Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
as Self
Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
as Self
2002
Talk to Her
as Singer at Party
Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
as Self
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
as Self
Caetano Veloso: Noites do Norte – Ao Vivo
as Self
Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
as Self
2001
Samba Riachão
as Self
Brazil's Maria Bethânia
as Self
2000
Pavarotti & Friends 7 - For Cambodia and Tibet
as Self
1999
Orfeu
as Cantor
1996
Bahia de Todos os Sambas
as Self
1995
The Mandarin
as Lamartine Babo
1992
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
as Self
1991
A Embaixatriz do Samba
as Self
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
Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família
as Self
Tabu
as Lamartine Babo
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
The Demiurge
as Demiurgo
Semana de Arte Moderna
as himself
1970
O Tempo e o Som
as Self
1969
Bahia, For Example
as Self
1966
Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show
as Self