Frete - Music

Renato Teixeira De Oliveira Santos Born May 20 1945 Is A Brazilian Singer And Composer Author Of The Well-Known Song Romaria Made Famous When It Was Recorded By Elis Regina Together With Almir Sater And Also Recorded By Maria Bethânia Dadá Maria As A Duet With Gal Costa And Frete The Opening Theme Of The Rede Globo TV Series Carga Pesada. He Spent His Youth In Ubatuba In The State Of São Paulo Until The Age Of 14 When He Left For Taubaté Where He Lived Until The Age Of 24. At The Beginning Of The 1960s He Worked As A DJ At Rádio Difusora In Taubaté Where He Discovered Sertaneja Music By Way Of Teodoro Israel A Nightclub DJ. In 1967 He Moved To São Paulo Where At The Patachou Bar He Shared Tables With Such Contemporaries As Chico Buarque Caetano Veloso Gal Costa And Geraldo Vandré. More Recently He Wrote The Song Rapaz Caipira Country Boy As Criticism Of The Current Mass-Produced Commercialized Sertaneja Music Iniciating A Rebirth Of The Term Música Caipira--Loosely Translated As Hillbilly Music In A Pejorative Sense Music Of The Country Folks. He Is A Defender Of The Música Raiz Roots Music Caipira Which Is Still Around Despite The Changing Face Of Sertaneja Music. read less