Gal Costa at Maritime Hall
in San Francisco
July 14 at 8:00PM

Gal Costa is one of the world's most graceful singers, according to Jon Pareles of the New York Times. According to Mauro Dias of São Paulo, Brazil's very influential newspaper, O Estado, Gal Costa possesses the most pure and clean feminine Brazilian voice. Choose the accolade you prefer, but come to Maritime Hall in San Francisco on July 14 at 8:00 PM to hear Gal Costa. According to Pareles, Gal brings tender understanding to every line. As the hit of the JVC Jazz Festival in New York in June, Gal Costa's show, "Unplugged." will be presented in San Francisco by Eye for Talent, Inc. Opening the show will be the highly acclaimed San Francisco-based Brazilian group, Vivendo de Pão.

Gal, one of the founders of the Tropicalismo movement in Brazil, has been firmly on top to the Brazilian record charts for the past thirty years. She and friend Maria Bethânia performed the songs of Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil while the latter were exiled in London during the dictatorship period of the late sixties and seventies. Gal was the muse of the late Brazilian hippie movement and standard-bearer of Tropicalismo.

Her show "Acústico" ("Unplugged") follows up her album of that name, which she recorded in a live concert for MTV Brazil. On it she revisits the best of her earlier songs of Tropicalismo, accompanied by a small band playing acoustically. This anthology "is such beautiful and rich material," she said. "And the way that I sing is very different thirty years later. The feeling is much deeper. To be a good singer you must always think about the words and what the words say," she said in fluent English. "I must identify with the song and find something in common with the lyrics of the song. I try to feel every word."

Antonio Carlos Miguel of Rio de Janeiro's major daily, O Globo, said that in this performance Gal is at her best form ever.

PO Box 280786, San Francisco, CA 94128 (650)595-2274 fax (650)595-2258 e-mail: bill@eyefortalent.com  Bill Smith - Eye for Talent, Inc. (650)595-2274

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