Carlinhos Brown (b. November 23, 1962) is a Brazilian musician from Salvador, Bahia. Antonio Carlos Santos de Freitas was born in Candeal Pequeno, a small neighbourhood in the Brotas area of Salvador de Bahia (Brazil). In 1967 he was still a child when Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil (two 25 year old Bahians) started a movement that would radically change Brazilian music: Tropicalism. Wikipedia
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