The musician, 77, exiled to
London under Brazil’s
MILITARY dictatorship says he fears the president’s ‘ultra-reactionary bunch’ will not let go of power easily
Half a century has passed since agents of the Brazilian dictatorship appeared on the doorstep of the
music legend Caetano Veloso and announced: “You’d better bring your toothbrush.”
Six months of detention and confinement later he was forced into European exile, spending the next two and a half years as a resident of
Chelsea, West Kensington and Golders Green, where he would rehearse what remains his most celebrated album, Transa, in the vestry of a local church.