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Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.

The show brings successes of his career, songs from the new CD and unpublished songs in his voice. In the script, songs from the new album as 'Casablanca' and 'Barulho' (both by. which inspired the album's title.

"Estratosférica ao Vivo" is not just the record of a Gal Costa show. It is the portrait of the artist reaching the 70 years of life, 50 of them dedicated to music. The show "Estratosférica" ​​crowns the new artistic phase of Gal, more and more interested in connecting several tips of the history of the music of Brazil, joining the composers of its generation to names of the new national scene. The script, created by Marcus Black, was very good at this idea. Sewing songs by Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Luiz Melodia, Jards Macalé and Waly Salomão, Carlos Pinto and Torquato Neto, Roberto and Erasmo Carlos - a series of tropicalist and post-tropicalist works that until now serve as reference and feed the new generations of music.

Brazilian singer Rita Lee narrates moments about her life, from her childhood to the meeting with Roberto de Carvalho. The documentary is permeated with excerpts from the singer's concerts, with songs sung entirely.

Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.

Live DVD, recorded in March 2008 in Fecap theater in Sao Paulo, Brazil, records the show which has passed through the main capitals of the country. Beside the quintet Pau Brazil, formed by Nelson Ayres (piano), Paul Bellinati (guitar and ukulele), Teco Cardoso (sax and flutes), Ricardo Mosca (drums) and Rodolfo Stroeter (bass), Monica Salmaso features many phases of the author Chico Buarque.