The tropicalista’s songs entranced Brazil for more than five decades and reshaped its popular music. She died at the age of 77
. The music was a key part of the counterculture that emerged in resistance to the dictatorship. Ms Costa called for courage in the face of repression. “We have to be alert and strong, we don’t have time to fear death” she crooned in “Divino, maravilhoso”, a song of 1969 which marked a departure from the“Who will want to buy bananas?” she asked in 1973 in “Presente Cotidiano”, mocking the “economic miracle” advertised by the junta.
“Brazil, show your face [...] Brazil, what’s your business, the name of your partner?” she sang on “Brasil”. Her willingness to experiment with her own sexuality, as she was bisexual, won her support from gay Brazilians.
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