Caetano Veloso & Chico Buarque

A true heavyweight, Caetano Veloso is a pop musician, poet, filmmaker, author, activist, and statesman. Since the 1960s, he has been a cultural shapeshifter whose songs and recordings are filled with musical and literary invention, a deliberate androgyny, and an effortless genre meld of samba, MPB, tropicalia, rock, funk, jazz, and more. His early trilogy of self-titled albums (1968-1971) were provocative and popular, while 1972's Transa, 1979's Cinema Transcendental, and 1989's Estrangeiro underscored his stylistic diversity. Veloso's 21st century recordings -- including 2000...