
Antônio José Santana Martins, known as Tom Zé (Irará, October 11, 1936), is a Brazilian composer, singer, arranger, and gardener.
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In 1968, Tom Zé moved from Bahia to São Paulo, went to the movies, had lunch with Caetano Veloso, and one morning composed the song that would go on to win the main music festival on Brazilian television that year. In "História de Música", the most São Paulo–minded of Bahian artists tells how filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person introduced him to the paulista capital at one of the city's most famous intersections.

Dive into the inventive universe of Tom Zé. Through intimate interviews with artists, family members and longtime collaborators, the film retraces the singular trajectory of one of Brazil's most original musical minds. The documentary brings together voices that reflect on his boundless creative unpredictability, highlight the technical mastery behind his sonic experiments and portray his music as the result of an expansive creative process, where ideas unfold like "pills of sound".

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70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today.

The paths that the artist traveled to create two essays that are landmarks of contemporary Brazilian photography.

Delve into the life of Antônio José Santana Martins, known as Tom Zé. Born in Bahia, this scholar of Brazilian music heads to São Paulo to propel a career filled with unusual and hilarious stories. The tropicalist artist revisits memories of his childhood in Irará, shares stories about his fellow tropicalismo movement colleagues, and reveals how his album "Estudando o Samba" won over David Byrne and launched him onto the global stage.

The art of Arrigo Barnabé, one of the pillars of the São Paulo experimental music scene during the 80's and author of critically acclaimed albums such as "Clara Crocodilo" (1980) and "Tubarões Voadores" (1984).

Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé into Brazilian popular music. Recreating in a poetic way concepts present in Caymmi's work and life, the documentary revelation of the artist from his own lines, mined in old magazines.

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