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Political Terrorism in Brazil

Magazine interview

By: Tom Zé

Date: May 19, 1999

Source: Interview with Tom Zé, published in the Minneapolis-St. Paul City Pages.

About the Author: Brazilian musician Tom Zé was born in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1936. Along with musicians such as Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, Zé was at the forefront of Brazil's Tropicalista movement, a wide-ranging social and artistic phenomenon which gained momentum as an agent of protest against the Brazilian military dictatorship that seized power in 1964. Zé was discovered by North American audiences in the early 1990s, when his music was promoted by the musician David Byrne.

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