Gal Costa(born Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos), a well-known singer from Brazil who was a key player in the Tropicália movement of the 1960s, passed away on Wednesday, according to her public relations firm. She had reached the age of 77.
There was no indication of a cause of death right away. The artist, who resided in So Paulo, recently postponed a performance at a nearby music festival on the recommendation of her physician following surgery in September to remove a nodule from her right nasal cavity.
According to the tour dates published on her website, she was supposed to make her stage debut in São Paolo in December.
With some of the biggest names in Brazilian music, like Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, and her close friend Caetano Veloso, Costa served as a muse for the country’s burgeoning popular music scene in the late 1960s.
Costa started her professional singing career in 1964 after being born on September 26, 1945, in Salvador, the state of Bahia’s capital. Domingo, her debut album, was released in 1967, and shortly after, she joined the Tropicália artistic movement, which combined Brazilian and international artistic elements. Tropicalismo fans now revere her 1969 self-titled solo debut.
Who were Gal Costa’s parents?
She was born to Mariah Costa Penna (mother) who listened to classical music for hours every day while she was pregnant in the hopes that it would spark Gal’s interest in it, and Arnaldo Burgos (father) who died in 1960 when Gal was 15 years old, and the two never met.
