{
  "slug": "gal-costa",
  "name": "Gal Costa",
  "description": "Gal Costa appears 2 times in our Tropicália and Sung to Someone lists, placing as high as No. 5. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/gal-costa/",
  "appearanceCount": 2,
  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1968,
    "last": 1968
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 5,
    "list": "Tropicália"
  },
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    {
      "kind": "genre",
      "slug": "tropicalia",
      "name": "Tropicália",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tropicalia/",
      "entries": 1
    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "sung-to-someone",
      "name": "Sung to Someone",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/",
      "entries": 1
    }
  ],
  "tracks": [
    {
      "trackKey": "gal-costa--baby",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/gal-costa--baby/",
      "title": "Baby",
      "year": 1968,
      "label": "Philips",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Caetano's lyric is a list of consumer instructions — learn English, drink Coca-Cola — sung with total sincerity. Satire and love song at once, and Costa refuses to tell you which.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
          "kind": "curator",
          "slug": "sung-to-someone",
          "name": "Sung to Someone",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Gal%20Costa%20Baby",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=b7d6wnaRm2E",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 5,
      "on": {
        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "tropicalia",
        "name": "Tropicália",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tropicalia/"
      },
      "artist": "Gal Costa"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "gal-costa--baby",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/gal-costa--baby/",
      "title": "Baby",
      "year": 1968,
      "label": "Philips",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "Caetano Veloso wrote it as a list of things you need to learn — the swimming pool, the margarine, me. Gal Costa sings them to one person in the year Brazil's dictatorship closed its fist. Addressed to a lover, and every word of it is also addressed past them.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
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          "slug": "tropicalia",
          "name": "Tropicália",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tropicalia/"
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Gal%20Costa%20Baby",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=b7d6wnaRm2E",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": null,
      "on": {
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        "slug": "sung-to-someone",
        "name": "Sung to Someone",
        "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/sung-to-someone/"
      },
      "artist": "Gal Costa"
    }
  ],
  "curates": null
}