Tom Zé
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Tom Zé in 2019 | |
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| Birth name | Antônio José Santana Martins |
| Born | 11 October 1936 Irará, Bahia, Brazil |
| Origin | São Paulo, Brazil |
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| Years active | 1960s–present |
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| Website | http://www.tomze.com.br/ |
Antônio José Santana Martins (born 11 October 1936), known professionally as Tom Zé (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ˈzɛ]), Born in Irará, Bahia, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when musician and Luaka Bop label head David Byrne discovered Zé's 1975 album Estudando o Samba and then released reissues of his work, that Zé returned to performing and releasing new material.