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It was an in-between year in the discography of Gal Costa, who opted not to record any albums. Meanwhile, during that period, she got together with the great Dorival Caymmi in a show that would travel to just three capitals. A consolation was that every night, the voice of Gal would spellbind millions of people watching Gabriela, a soap opera, which had as opening theme (Modinha para Gabriela) composed by Caymmi, recorded by her and the basis for the preparation for an LP about the repertoire of Caymmi, which would be recorded in December.
But not everything was a bowl of cherries. The censors of the dictatorship reached their peak, with more than 400 theater plays banned. In MPB, many composers took to writing in metaphors, to get around the veto of entire lyrics.
Film-maker Nelson Pereira dos Santos opened with O Amuleto de Ogum, Elis Regina started a run of Falso Brilhante, Bibi Ferreira starred in Gota D’Água, Nara Leão released a record of ingenuous songs (Meu Primeiro Amor), the Journalist Wladimir Herzog was killed at DOI-Codi in São Paulo, and Caetano Veloso issued two albums simultaneously: Jóia and Qualquer Coisa. The jacket of Jóia with a design of the naked bodies of Caetano, his wife Dedé Gadelha, and their son Moreno Veloso, signed by its composer, was censored and, later, changed.
They were complicated times.
Eduardo Logullo
translation: Kirsten Weinoldt
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