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Caetano Veloso

By Fred Child

Published December 8, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Fred Child profiles Brazilian singer, songwriter and legendary political activist Caetano Veloso. His autobiography Tropical Truth has just been released, as has a new 2-CD set, Live in Bahia.

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