Music is the greatest communication in the world.
Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. Though she is known to be Brazilian superstar Caetano Veloso's sister, she is no mere sidekick. Born Maria Vianna Telles Veloso in 1946 in the small town of Santa Amaro da Purificaco, Maria Bethania began her recording career in 1965 with Carcara, a song written for her by her brother. Though the recording was a success, Bethania spent much of the next 15 years revered as a cult performer, a musicians' musician, with record sales that never matched her influence. This was partly due to her distancing herself from her brother and his involvement in the radical tropicalismo movement of the late '60s.