Brazilian artist Gal Costa passed away, Wednesday, at the age of 77, according to the artist’s team. The cause of death is unknown at the moment, but Gal Costa has been recovering from surgery and will not be back on stage until the end of this month.
The singer was to perform at the Primavera Sound Festival, which was held in Sao Paulo this weekend, but the show was canceled shortly before the concert. According to the singer’s team, Gal Costa needed to recover after having a knot removed from her right nasal cavity and must be off stage until the end of November, on medical advice.
The singer was played in September, shortly after a concert at another music festival in Sao Paulo, Kuala. Since then, he hasn’t returned to the stage, but he already had tour dates The many points of a star Scheduled in December and January.
Born Maria da Graça Costa Pena Burgos in Salvador, Bahia, in 1945, her mother always encouraged Gal Costa to pursue a career in music. Her father, who died during the artist’s adolescence, was an absent figure.
At the beginning of his adult life, he worked as a record desk at a record store in the capital of Bahia, Ronnie Disco, one of the main stores in the city. In the early 1960s, she was introduced to Caetano Veloso, a meeting through which a personal and artistic bond was established that lasted until his death.
it was expensive The revolution of sounds and habits in Brazilian music since its emergence on the national scene in the same decade. While still a teenager, he became close to fellow Bahian Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania and Gilberto Gil, with whom he merged the group known as the Doces Bárbaros, who was later responsible for Record set in the seventies.
The singer was only 20 years old when she appeared on the album Tropicalia or Panis et Circencis, the cornerstone of the equatorial movement. Soon, in 1971, he gave one of the most influential performances in the history of Brazilian popular music, deadlywhich will also become a cult album.
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