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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.
Known for
- Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil — Self (archive footage)2025
- Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi — Self (archive footage)2024
- TropiGal — Self (archive footage)2023
- Meu Nome é Gal — Self (archive footage)2023
- Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer — Self (archive footage)2022
- Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu — Self (archive footage)2022
- 2022 — Self2022
- Numéro un - Demis Roussos — Self2020
- Todas as Melodias — Self (archive footage)2020
- Milton e o Clube da Esquina — Self2020
via TMDB
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maria
- Family name
- Costa
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Salvador
- Place of death
- São Paulo
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Mercury Records
- Image
- Gal Costa Tom Brasil (46108513412).jpg
- Residence
- São Paulo
- Voice type
- soprano
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- unmarried partner
- Lúcia Veríssimo
- Commons category
- Gal Costa
- date of birth
- 1945-09-26
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- birth name
- Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos
- date of death
- 2022-11-09
- end of work period
- 2022-00-00
- name in native language
- Gal Costa
- social media followers
- 1194283
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- present in work
- The War of the Saints
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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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gal Costa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.