BR-3
The winner of the 1970 Festival Internacional da Cancao, written by Antonio Adolfo and Tiberio Gaspar.
Toni Tornado, from B.R.3 (1970)
Antonio Adolfo and Tiberio Gaspar wrote it, and Tornado sang it with the Trio Ternura (ELLE adds the Quarteto Osmar Milito). One source, via a search summary of Folha Vitoria, says it was composed in about ten minutes after Adolfo saw Easy Rider. The title is the road BR-3, the pre-1964 designation of the Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte highway, now BR-040. Adolfo says that after the BR-3 problem he went to Europe and Gaspar to Goiania, and the partnership stopped until 2006, after about 40 songs written between 1967 and the end of 1970. Gaspar died on February 15, 2017.
Setlist.fm shows him playing it at SESC Consolacao on October 9, 2025, with a set that included "Sex Machine" and "Podes Crer Amizade". We found no covers or samples.
On stage
- 2025-10-09, SESC Consolacao, Sao Paulo Played fourth in the set.
Sources
- Toni Tornado, Portuguese Wikipedia
- BR-3, Rolling Stone Brasil (2009-12-18)
- Tony Tornado entrevista, ELLE Brasil
- Tiberio Gaspar, Radio Senado