Latest Release
- 10 MAY 2024
- 1 Song
- Azul (Illusionize & Linkage Remix) - Single · 2024
- Barato Total (feat. Gilberto Gil & Gal Costa) - Single · 2023
- Sao Salvador - Single · 2023
- Sebastiana - Single · 2023
- Ao Vivo no Coala Festival 2022 · 2023
- Flor De Maracujá (*Aureum Remix) - Single · 2023
- Para Lennon e McCartney / Citação: O Vento - Single · 2022
- Voces y Cuerdas de América (Vol. 1) · 2022
- QVVJFA? · 2022
- Canção pra Amazônia (feat. Nando Reis, Anavitória, Agnes Nunes, Arnaldo Antunes, Baco Exu do Blues, Caetano Veloso, Camila Pitanga, Céu, Chico César, Criolo, Daniela Mercury, Diogo Nogueira, DJUENA TIKUNA, DUDA BEAT, Elza Soares, Flor Gil, Gaby Amarantos, Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, IZA, Majur, Maria Bethânia, Milton Nascimento, Péricles, Preta Gil, Rael, Rincon Sapiência, Samuel Rosa, Thaline Karajá, Vitão & Xande de Pilares) - EP · 2021
Essential Albums
- Not to be confused with Gal Costa’s self-titled solo debut, this is the Tropicália star’s second album, originally released in 1969. The bursts of feedback and wah-wah guitar that animate most of the songs share the wild psychedelic vibe of the colourful cover painting. Vocally, Costa largely abandons the sweet, girlish delivery that originally made her name. On Jorge Ben’s “Tuareg”, she adds a bit of North African flavour and she delivers the Gilberto Gil-penned “Cultura e Civilização” with an aggressive edge. Even the album’s most conventional pop song, “Meu Nome é Gal”, is a cosmic exploration—by the time it builds to its crazed ending, the singer repeatedly screams the song’s title over Rogério Duprat’s lavish orchestral arrangement.
- 2021
Artist Playlists
- She bridged bossa nova to the kaleidoscopic new sounds of Tropicalismo.
- Spotlighting the Brazilian singer's enchanting live performances.
- The Tropicália and MPB veteran thrilled on stage.
Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
More To Hear
- Q-Tip and Natasha Diggs spin international tracks.
About Gal Costa
Gal Costa was in many ways the first lady of Brazilian music. She was a creative rebel who, as a key part of the Tropicália movement of the late ‘60s and early '70s, espoused a countercultural aesthetic that advanced Brazilian pop beyond bossa nova and samba into challenging new territory. Her big, bold style found her belting out melodies diva-style one moment and indulging in psychedelic, avant-garde experiments the next. In the '80s, like many of her peers, the prolific vocalist explored a glossier, often jazz-influenced contemporary-pop sound, but soon returned to her roots and rediscovered the soul and sophistication of traditional bossa nova in her later years. Costa died in November 2022 at the age of 77.
- HOMETOWN
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- BORN
- 26 September 1945
- GENRE
- MPB