Five minutes with a Brazilian music legend who turned homesickness into an anthem.
In 1968, Tom Zé moved from Bahia to São Paulo, went to the movies, had lunch with Caetano Veloso, and one morning composed the song that would go on to win the main music festival on Brazilian television that year. In "História de Música", the most São Paulo–minded of Bahian artists tells how filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person introduced him to the paulista capital at one of the city's most famous intersections.
Direction
Sbrana packs a lifetime of artistic evolution into five dense minutes.
Sound
The original 1968 recording hits different with this context.
Director
Alisson Sbrana
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Luiz Sérgio Person died in a car crash just months after filming this, making his appearance ghostly archival footage.
Tom Zé was considered the 'difficult' Tropicalista; David Byrne's 1990s rediscovery saved him from complete obscurity.
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