Born Antônio José Santana Martins, October 11, 1936 in Irará, Bahia, Brazil, Zé is a representative of Brazil's alternative sound, not only because of his use of objects as instruments, but also for his attitudes and for his eccentric, vivid style. Influential in the Tropicalia movement, Zé contributed – along with
Caetano Veloso,
Gilberto Gil,
Gal Costa,
Os Mutantes, and
Nara Leão – to the watershed tropicalia album/manifesto
Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses. While the other major figures of
tropicalia would go on to great commercial and critical success in later …
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