Gal Costa

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Brazil

Active from

1945-09-26

Active to

2022-11-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

914,203

Total plays

46,802,561

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. 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

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,698x

3. 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

4. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,229x

5. 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

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