Gal Costa (album)

Gal Costa
Studio album by
Released1969
Genre
Length39:12
LabelPhillips
Dusty Groove (reissue)
ProducerManuel Barenbein
Gal Costa chronology
Domingo
(1967)
Gal Costa
(1969)
Gal
(1969)
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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Gal Costa is the first solo album by the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, released in 1969. It was ranked the 80th best Brazilian album of all time by the Brazilian Rolling Stone magazine.

Considered one of the most representative records of the countercultural Tropicália movement, the album features songwriting by various artist associated with the movement, with whom Costa had previously worked with in the 1968 collaboration album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis. These include Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Torquato Neto.