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.
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Acting History
2025
Cazuza Além da Música as Self
2025Caetano e Bethânia Ao Vivo as Self
2025Fernando Collor: The Maharajah Hunter as Self (archive footage)
2025Chico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem as Self (archive footage)
2025Ritas as Self (archive footage)
2025Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil as Self (archive footage)
2024Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi as Self
2024Transe as Caetano
2024Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos as Self
2024Anna Mariani - Photographic Notes as Narrator
2024A Última Vanguarda as Self
2023They Shot the Piano Player as Self (voice)
2023Môa, Mother Africa Roots as Self (archive footage)
2023Grupo Corpo Pela Música
2023The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2022Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer as Self (archive footage)
2022Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu as Self (archive footage)
2022Especial Caetano Veloso 80 Anos as Self
20222022 as Self
2021Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina as Self
2020Race Antenna as Self
2020Ney - À Flor da Pele as Self
2020Narcissus Off Duty as Self
2020Caetano Veloso - Live as Self
2020Numéro un - Demis Roussos as Self
2019Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa as Self
2019Orlamundo as Self
20191964: Brazil between weapons and books as Himself
2019Amigo Arrigo as Self (archive footage)
2019Fevereiros as Self
2019Antes que Me Esqueçam, Meu Nome É Edy Star as Self
2018Emicida: 10 Anos de Triunfo - Ao vivo as Self
2018Com a Palavra, Arnaldo Antunes as Self
2018Dê Lembranças a Todos as Self
2017Gabeira as Self
2017Tropicália: 50 Anos as Self (archive footage)
2017Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End as Self
2017O Nome Dela é Gal as Self
2017Barão Vermelho: Por que a gente é assim? as Self (archive footage)
2017Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas as Self
2017Lady Night as Self
2017Jovem aos 50 - A História de Meio Século da Jovem Guarda as Self
2017Axé: Music of a People as Self
2016Minha Estupidez
2016Pitanga as Self
2016Sobre Noiz as Self
2016Vamos Tocar as Self
2016Roberto Carlos e Caetano Veloso - A Música de Tom Jobim as Self
2016Caetano Veloso - Zii e Zie as Self
2016Casa de Samba as Self
2016Guitarra Baiana - A Voz do Carnaval as Self
2015Chico: Brazilian Artist as Self (archive footage)
2015Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista as Self
2015Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro as Self
2015Two Friends, a Century of Music as Self
2015André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music as Self
2014Naked Eye as Self (archive footage)
2014Multishow ao Vivo: Caetano Veloso – Abraçaço as Self
2013A Farra do Circo as Self
2013Paulo Gustavo na Estrada
2012Tropicália as Self
2012The Music According to Tom Jobim as Self (archive footage)
2012Raul: O Início, o Fim e o Meio as Self
2012Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust as Self
2012Aperana Street 52 as Self
2012Agamenon: The Film as Self
2011Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano as Self
2011Músicos de Latinoamérica as Self
2011Rock Brasília - Era de Ouro as Self
2011Consideração do Poema
2011Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo as Self
2010A Night in 67 as Self
2010Intrépida Trupe - Será que o Tempo Realmente Passa? as Self
2009Beyond Ipanema as Self
2009Wandering Heart as Self
2009Loki: Arnaldo Baptista as Self (archive footage)
2009Palavra (En)Cantada as Self (archive footage)
2008Permanent Pan-Cinema as Self
2008Before and After S. Bernardo as Self
2008Um Barzinho, Um Violão: Novelas Anos 70 as Self - interpreta Moça
2008The Man Who Bottled Clouds as Self
2008Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia as Self
2007Rita Lee - Biograffiti: Ovelha Negra as Self
2007Fados as Self
2007Rita Lee - Biograffiti: Cor de Rosa Choque as Self
2007Grupo Corpo: Dance Theatre from Brazil as Self
2007Pixote In Memoriam as Self
2007Maria Bethânia: Pedrinha de Aruanda as Self
2007Jorge Ben Jor - Energia
2006O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento as Self
2006Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
2006Fabricating Tom Zé as Self
2006Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra as Self
2005Vinicius de Moraes as Self - Singer 'Poema dos Olhos da Amada'
2005Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume as Self
2005Phono 73: A Country and its Music as Self (archive footage)
2004The Miracle of Candeal as Self
2004Welcome to São Paulo as Narrator
2004MPB dos Tempos da Repressão as Self
2004O Baú do Raul - Uma Homenagem a Raul Seixas as Self
2004Heliorama as Self
2004Miguel's Destiny as Garçom
2003Caetano Veloso – Un Caballero De Fina Estampa as Self
2003Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought as Self
2003Outros (Doces) Bárbaros as Self
2002Talk to Her as Singer at Party
2002Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico as Self
2002Caetano Veloso: Noites do Norte – Ao Vivo as Self
2002Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino as Self
2002Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei as Self
2001Samba Riachão as Self
2001Brazil's Maria Bethânia as Self
2001Rita Lee: 3001
2001Caetano - Prenda Minha as Self
2001Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
2000Pavarotti & Friends 7 - For Cambodia and Tibet as Self
1999Orfeu as Cantor
1997Milton Nascimento - A Sede do Peixe as Self
1996Bahia de Todos os Sambas as Self
1995The Mandarin as Lamartine Babo
1995Trovoada as Self (uncredited)
1992Casseta & Planeta, Urgente!
1992Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália as Self
1992Circuladô
1991A Embaixatriz do Samba as Self
1989Sermões
1987Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion as Self
1986Criança Esperança as Self
1986Talking Cinema as Self / Singer "Língua"
1986Chico & Caetano as Self
1986Mixto Quente
1984New Wave as Caetano Veloso
1983Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família as Self
1983Corações a Mil
1983Tabu as Lamartine Babo
1982Rita Lee & Roberto de Carvalho: O Circo
1982The King of the Candle
1981Brasil as Self
1981O Mundo Mágico dos Trapalhões as Self
1980Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque as Self
1980Grandes Nomes as Self
1980Fênix as Self
1979HO as Self
1977Os Doces Bárbaros as Self
1977The Bunglers
1975Numéro un as Self
1974Conteúdo Zero, um Filme para Desentendidos as Self
1973Loucura e Cultura as Self
1972Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1972The Demiurge as Demiurgo
1972Semana de Arte Moderna as himself
1970The Heirs
1970O Tempo e o Som as Self
1969Bahia, For Example as Self
1968A Última Ceia Segundo Ziraldo
1966Bethânia Bem de Perto: A Propósito de um Show as Self
1953The Oscars as Self
—Caetano Veloso in Bahia
—Caetano Veloso - Ao Vivo no Ginásio da Unicamp, 1987