Maria Bethânia

Alibi is the album.

Maria Bethania, Phillips, 1978.

[singing in foreign language] Stay with us until 1:00 AM.

Som Do Brasil, 212-854-9920 is our phone number right here at our KCR Studios, Uptown New York, right at the Columbia University campus.

"É proibido proibir," right? It's prohibited to prohibit.

But basically, what happened with Os Mutantes is Os Mutantes was like a zombie rock group, and they hook up with Caetano, Gil, um, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Maria Bethania, Rogerio Duprat, right? They hook up, and they, like, form the nexus of this, like, Tropicalismo, Tropicalia movement.

But that, like, moment was like he stopped caring about appeasing anybody.

Like, they were very, um, aggressive in mixing what shouldn't have been mixed, and just a couple years before that, a whole bunch of people, like, marched in the street to protest rock and roll from the left.

Okay.

Um, but you know, he, he's a, a Brazilian dude of mixed race, you know? And he and his sister are very important.

He is more important than his sister, but, um, and, and his sister is Maria Bethania.

She's not as famous internationally.