Saeed Abdulla Saif Joula Alqemzi, Ambassador of the UAE to the Republic of Argentina. Members of the airport’s management team were present Oscar Suarez, Director of International Markets, IMPROTUR and also H.E. In Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza’s Ministro Pistarini International Airport, flight EK247 was met by Argentinian officials including Alexis Raúl Guerrera, Minister of Transport Matías Lammens, Minister of Tourism Paola Tamburelli, Director of Civil Aviation, and Sebastian Villar Guarino, General Manager Ezeiza Airport. Photo Credit: Emirates Back in Buenos Aires She kept her private life largely to herself, but occasionally posted on social media about her son, Gabriel, whom she adopted when she was in her 60s.Ĭosta is survived by Gabriel, now 16, her agency said.Photo: The arrival in Rio. She maintained her discreet but persistent political activism throughout her life, criticizing far-right president Jair Bolsonaro's policies on culture and the arts. She won a lifetime achievement award at the Latin Grammys in 2011. "She emerged from the womb with a made-to-order voice," said Ze.īeyond her musical talent, Costa became a sex symbol and icon of the changes sweeping Brazil in those turbulent times, sporting a "black power" hairstyle, colorful, revealing outfits and sometimes showing her breasts on stage.Īfter Tropicalia disbanded in 1968, Costa constantly reinvented her style, bouncing from samba to rock to soul to disco. "My daughter, you are going to be a great singer," Ze, her childhood neighbor, recalled Mariah telling Gal. Constant reinventionīorn Maria da Graca Costa Penna Burgos, the singer nicknamed "Gal" was exposed to music from the earliest age by her mother, Mariah, who used to hold the radio to her pregnant belly. When Veloso and Gil were arrested and forced into exile by Brazil's military dictatorship in 1969, Costa became a leading spokeswoman for Tropicalia and Brazil's counter-culture in general.īut she never had "problems" with the military regime (1964-1985), she said, aside from having one of her album covers censored for baring her breasts - "India," in 1973. The following year, the Tropicalia movement was born, an experimental, politically charged fusion of Brazilian sounds with jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and other influences.Ĭosta sang on the landmark collaborative album that announced the movement's arrival, "Tropicalia ou Panis et Circensis," along with Veloso, Gil, Tom Ze, the band Os Mutantes and others. In 1967, she released her first album, "Domingo," with Veloso. she would not be just another commercial singer, but a new kind, with an intelligent repertoire." "Her beautiful voice and sweet presence were enough for us to see how she could become. "She had never wanted to do anything else in her life," Veloso wrote in his 1997 memoir, "Tropical Truth."
She followed them to Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s, determined to make it as a singer. lost one of its great voices today." 'New kind of singer'Ĭosta found her calling early on, as a teenager in the northeastern city of Salvador, where she met Veloso, his sister Maria Bethania and Gil - all on their way to becoming giants of Brazilian music.
She was "one of the best singers in the world, one of our foremost artists who brought the name and sounds of Brazil to the entire planet," he wrote. "I'm very sad and shaken by the death of my 'sister' tweeted celebrated singer-songwriter and former culture minister Gilberto Gil.īrazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva posted a picture on Instagram of him embracing Costa. News of her death brought an emotional outpouring in Brazil. "Unfortunately, we confirm" that Costa died, a spokeswoman for Costa's PR firm told AFP, saying she could not give further details.Ĭosta, who lived in Sao Paulo, had canceled a concert at the city's Primavera Sound music festival last Saturday on doctors' advice, after having surgery in September to remove a nodule from her right nasal cavity.īut she had been expected to return to the stage, and her website listed her next performance as a concert in Sao Paulo on December 17. She recorded a slate of hits including "Baby," "Que Pena," "Chuva de Prata" and "Divino Maravilhoso," across a nearly six-decade career that produced more than 30 albums. With her mane of brown curls and seductive smile, Costa sang with some of the biggest names on Brazil's booming popular music scene in the 1960s and immortalized many of their songs, including those by Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento and her close friend Caetano Veloso.
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