Artist
Gal Costa
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.
- Ranked entries
- 2
- Appears on
- Tropicália and Sung to Someone
- Year
- 1968
- Highest placing
- No. 5 in Tropicália
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Appears on
Baby
1968 · Philips
Ranked No. 5 in Tropicália
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.
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Baby
1968 · Philips
Picked by Sung to Someone
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.
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