Gal Costa

Gal Costa

Born: September 26, 1945
Died: November 9, 2022
in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Gal Costa was an awarded singer with an extensive solo discography and international experience. A fundamental presence in the Tropicalia movement, she has been in Brazil's leading team of singers for decades.

Movies for Gal Costa...

Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil
Title: Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil
Released: April 13, 2024
Type: Movie
A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest artists in the history of MPB. The film also features an unpublished collection made available by Jane Reis, his wife and businesswoman.
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LeeGal
Title: LeeGal
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2023
Type: Movie
When TropiGal and IrRita meet it can only be LeeGal.
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Meu Nome é Gal
Title: Meu Nome é Gal
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.
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TropiGal
Title: TropiGal
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Gal Costa is the greatest singer in Brazil. From João Gilberto in Bahia to Tropicália and the memories of more than 50 years of career, what remains is the trance of his voice and enchantment on show stage.
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Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
Title: Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2022
Type: Movie
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.
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Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
Title: Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: Movie
The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage of rehearsals and concerts by the singer throughout her 57-year career. Actress Fernanda Montenegro narrates five texts by authors such as Ferreira Gullar and Caio Fernando Abreu about Bethânia's importance on the Brazilian cultural scene.
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Title: Som Brasil apresenta
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 10, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: 2022
Character: Self
Released: March 11, 2022
Type: TV
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Numéro un - Demis Roussos
Title: Numéro un - Demis Roussos
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 2020
Type: Movie
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Gal Costa: A Pele do Futuro – Ao Vivo
Title: Gal Costa: A Pele do Futuro – Ao Vivo
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2019
Type: Movie
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Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
Title: Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
Character: Self
Released: July 21, 2019
Type: Movie
The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several prominent artists in Brazilian popular music. With unpublished testimonies from professional colleagues and family members, as well as archival footage of their participation in cinema and radio, the documentary traces their journey between troubled relationships, dramas, controversies, stardom, ostracism, the return to the artistic milieu, even his death in 1982.
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Gal Costa: Estratosférica – Ao Vivo
Title: Gal Costa: Estratosférica – Ao Vivo
Character: Self
Released: November 10, 2017
Type: Movie
"Estratosférica ao Vivo" is not just the record of a Gal Costa show. It is the portrait of the artist reaching the 70 years of life, 50 of them dedicated to music. The show "Estratosférica" ​​crowns the new artistic phase of Gal, more and more interested in connecting several tips of the history of the music of Brazil, joining the composers of its generation to names of the new national scene. The script, created by Marcus Black, was very good at this idea. Sewing songs by Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Luiz Melodia, Jards Macalé and Waly Salomão, Carlos Pinto and Torquato Neto, Roberto and Erasmo Carlos - a series of tropicalist and post-tropicalist works that until now serve as reference and feed the new generations of music.
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Tropicália: 50 Anos
Title: Tropicália: 50 Anos
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 4, 2017
Type: Movie
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Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
Title: Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which changed the course of Brazilian culture in the 1960s and 1970s, until he committed suicide on his 28th birthday.
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Title: O Nome Dela é Gal
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 2017
Type: TV
A four-part biography on the life of the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, from her humble beginning singing in the streets of Salvador, where she became friends with many artists who would be other great names in Brazilian music in the following decades to her 50th career anniversary in 2015.
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Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Title: Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Vamos Tocar
Character: Self
Released: April 3, 2016
Type: TV
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Gal Costa: Recanto – Ao Vivo
Title: Gal Costa: Recanto – Ao Vivo
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2013
Type: Movie
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Tropicália
Title: Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.
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Music According to Tom Jobim
Title: Music According to Tom Jobim
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Title: The Man Who Bottled Clouds
Character: Self
Released: July 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
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Title: O Som do Vinil
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: TV
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Jorge Ben Jor - Energia
Title: Jorge Ben Jor - Energia
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Title: Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day.
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A Marca do Terrir
Title: A Marca do Terrir
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Compilation of early Ivan Cardoso's films in Super 8, including "Nosferato no Brasil (Nosferato in Brazil)"
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Phono 73: A Country and its Music
Title: Phono 73: A Country and its Music
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.
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Gal Costa: Programa Ensaio
Title: Gal Costa: Programa Ensaio
Character: Self - Singer
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Celebridade
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 2003
Type: TV
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
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Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Title: Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
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Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
Title: Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália.
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B2
Title: B2
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.
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Gal Costa Sings Tom Jobim
Title: Gal Costa Sings Tom Jobim
Character: Self - Singer
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
The voice and the unmistakable interpretation of Gal Costa, in honor of Tom Jobim, with songs that should always be remembered: 1. Fotografia (Photography), 2. Por Causa de Você (Because Of You), 3. Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema), 4. Derradeira Primavera (Ultimate Spring), 5. Wave, 6. Brigas Nunca Mais Discussão (Discussion Fights Never Again), 7. Piano na Mangueira (Piano in Mangueira), 8. Esquecendo Você (Forgetting You), 9. Chega de Saudade, 10. Samba do Avião (Airplane's Samba), 11. Anos Dourados (Golden Years), 12. Desafinado (Out of Tune), 13. Tema de Amor de Gabriela ( (Gabriela Love's Theme), 14. Ligia, 15. Janelas Abertas (Open Windows), 16. Corcovado, 17. Bonita (Beautiful), 18. Triste (Sad), 19. Chovendo na Roseira (Raining in Rose), 20. Falando de Amor (Speaking of Love), 21. Felicidade (Happiness), 22. Frevo.
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Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Title: Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.
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The Mandarin
Title: The Mandarin
Released: November 6, 1995
Type: Movie
The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.
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Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute
Title: Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute
Character: Self - Vocalist
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Direct from Brazil in his last recorded performance, this DVD, Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute, features the compositions of Bossa Nova originator & music icon Antonio Carlos Jobim, joined by an international delegation of Jazz giants to recreate his classic melodies in this beautiful, concert-length 'Thank You,' hosted by renowned pianist Herbie Hancock.Composer of countless unforgettable songs, including Girl From Ipanema, Tom Jobim virtually single handedly brought the world Bossa Nova music. The esteemed pianist / vocalist is joined on stage by a cornucopia of musical legends such as Herbie Hancock, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jon Hendricks, Gal Costa, & many more in this once-in-a-lifetime concert DVD.
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Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
Title: Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
Title: Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 1989
Type: Movie
A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.
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Title: Criança Esperança
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 1986
Type: TV
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Title: Mixto Quente
Released: January 5, 1986
Type: TV
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Baby Gal
Title: Baby Gal
Released: December 16, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Grandes Nomes
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1980
Type: TV
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Mulher 80
Title: Mulher 80
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Mulher 80 emerged as a result of the success of 'Malu Mulher' (1979), a miniseries starring Regina Duarte, which addressed the female situation in Brazilian society at that time. The main focus of the special was the female presence in music, honouring the singers and songwriters of MPB with musical numbers and testimonials.
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Title: Stryx
Released: October 15, 1978
Type: TV
Stryx was an Italian TV series, aired in 1978 on Rai Due. Stryx thematically referred to Hell, devils and underworld. The scenography featured elements resembling Middle Ages-like gloomy castles and caves. The show featured acting as well as musical performances from such artists as Amanda Lear, Asha Puthli, Grace Jones, Patty Pravo, Mia Martini, Angelo Branduardi and The Rockets.
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Os Doces Bárbaros
Title: Os Doces Bárbaros
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced to go to a detox clinic, and only went out to participate in the programmed shows.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Índia
Title: Índia
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Demiurge
Title: The Demiurge
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazil, on the will that the exiled had to return to their homeland. The idea came from conversations between the musician and his old father, "always talking about the pre-Socratics", he recalls. Glauber Rocha states that "The Demiurge" is the best film "of" and "about" exile.
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Gal Fa-tal
Title: Gal Fa-tal
Character: Self
Released: June 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Shot in 1971 during Gal Costa's famous concert "Gal Fa-tal" in Rio de Janeiro's Sucata Nightclub, Ivan Cardoso's eponymous Super-8 short film shows the singer both in and off stage, interlapsed with scenes from Cardoso's "Nosferato no Brasil".
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A Nova Estrela
Title: A Nova Estrela
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Sugestives images about the music A Nova Estrela by Wagner Tiso.
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Meu Nome é Gal
Title: Meu Nome é Gal
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Gal Costa in her privacy. Unkempt hair, colorful clothes, many necklaces and rings, she and the streets of downtown Rio. She laughs a lot, gestures and sings. Rio's landscapes such as Lage Park, a quiet place in the neighborhood of Gávea, an active factory.
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Bahia, For Example
Title: Bahia, For Example
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.