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| | NOW : Entertainment : MORENO VELOSO : Mar 22 - 28, 2001 |
 | | Tropicalia was always culturally cannibalistic, and its artists would absorb every possible influence, from traditional folk songs and doo-wop to psychedelia and the Brazilian national anthem, and then spit out something new synthesized from that. |
 | | The towering tradition of Brazilian song still exists, but alongside it thrives a new crop of musicians like Veloso, Bebel Gilberto, guitarist Vinicius Cantuaria and transplanted producer Suba who push the music into the present by instilling beats in their bossa. |
 | | He's practically Brazilian music royalty, the son of famed poet and songwriter Caetano Veloso, who, 35 years ago, alongside Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes, destabilized Brazilian popular music, or MPB, with the radical, open-ended art movement Tropicalia (see sidebar). |
| www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2001-03-22/cover_story.html (1045 words) |
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