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Gal Costa (1945–2022) was a Brazilian female vocalist whose career spanned from 1965 to 2022. She was associated with the musical genres of bossa nova, mpb, psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, and tropicália. Her work has been cataloged in five entries, and she is referenced by 701 other encyclopedia articles.
Costa’s music is frequently tagged with descriptors such as bossa nova, mpb, brazilian, tropicalia, and female vocalists. She accumulated 914,203 listeners and 46,802,561 plays on Last.fm. Additionally, she had 1,194,283 social media followers.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Brazil
- Active from
- 1945-09-26
- Active to
- 2022-11-09
Discography
- Domingo1967
- Gal1969
- Gal Costa1969
- Legal1970
- Índia1973
- Cantar1974
- Gal canta Caymmi1976
- Caras & bocas1977
- Água viva1978
- Gal tropical1979
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 914,203
- Total plays
- 46,802,561
Tags
Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos (26 September 1945, Salvador, Brazil — 9 November 2022, São Paulo, Brazil), best known as Gal Costa, was a popular Brazilian MPB singer and musician, regarded by many as Brazil's greatest female singer of all time. Also known as "Musa da Tropicália" (Muse of Tropicália), she was one of the most diverse singers in Brazil, moving across all musical genres and being elected as the greatest voice in Brazilian music by Rolling Stone, as well as one of the 10 greatest
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,229x
- Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome
· 2005 · cited 9,437x
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Key facts
- Born
- Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos , ( 1945-09-26 ) 26 September 1945, Salvador , Bahia , Brazil
- Died
- 9 November 2022 (2022-11-09) (aged 77), São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
- Genres
- MPB , tropicália , psychedelia , rock , bossa nova , samba
- Occupation
- Singer
- Years active
- 1964–2022 (her death)
- Labels
- RCA Philips PolyGram Universal
- Website
- galcosta .com .br
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos; 26 September 1945 – 9 November 2022), known professionally as Gal Costa ( Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈgaw ˈkɔstɐ] ), was a Brazilian singer of popular music. Twelve-time Brazilian Music Awards winner, she was one of the main figures of the tropicalia music scene in Brazil in the late 1960s and appeared on the acclaimed compilation Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis (1968). She was described by The New York Times as "one of Brazil's greatest singers."
Early life
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