As he approaches his 70th birthday, the Brazilian legend Tom Zé isn’t laying back. In fact he has released one of the most ambitious albums of his storied, four-decades-plus career: the Grammy-nominated three-act operetta, Estudando o Pagode. Quirky and unexpected, it re-introduces the artist who, along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and others, led the revolutionary Tropicalia movement in Brazil in the 1960s.
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