The Brazilian musician and poet Caetano Veloso will receive the title of doctor ‘honoris causa’ from the University of Salamanca on Monday, September 4, in a solemn act in Latin, the academic institution announced on Monday.
Singer, composer, music producer and, “especially in his long artistic and intellectual career”, also a writer, the Brazilian Caetano Veloso is considered “one of the best world musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries”, the institution states in a statement .
Caetano Veloso, considers the University, is part of a “very select constellation” together with “universal figures such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney or Patti Smith or, specifically from the field of Brazilian music, Tom Jobin, Gilberto Gil , Milton Nascimento or Djavan”.
His candidacy was presented by the Faculty of Philology and the Department of Modern Philology, with the support of the Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, and defended before the Senate of the University by the professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology Pedro Serra, in the session held on 21 April 2022, explains the academic institution in the statement.
To date, the Brazilian musician and poet has compiled more than 50 albums that are still available on the market, and in the field of world music he has a “huge and brilliant body of work that is still alive when he turns 50 in his career”, Remember the institution.
Source: TSF
