Brazilian singer Gal Costa has been confirmed dead.
She is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of Brazilian pop music
The award-winning music legend whose crystalline voice and transgressive sensuality made her the muse of the groundbreaking “Tropicalia” movement in the 1960s, died Wednesday, her public relations agency said. She was 77.
The news on Gal Costa’s death was conformed in a social media post made by her spokesperson.
“Unfortunately, we confirm” that Costa died, a spokeswoman for Costa’s PR firm told AFP, saying she could not give further details.
With her mane of brown curls and seductive smile, Costa sang with some of the biggest stars on Brazil’s blossoming popular music scene in the 1960s and immortalized many of their songs, including by Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, and her close friend Caetano Veloso.
