"Verão Vermelho" is a song by Santana

Santana (band)

Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...

 which came off the album Festival. Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...

 pays homage to the late, legendary Brazilian singer, Elis Regina

Elis Regina

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...

. This song features some excellent acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

 with The Waters Family backing vocalist

Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

s singing the meaningless words, ”Badadup, badadup, badadup, ba pa pa ba pa pa.” It is carried along by a marching drum beat and maracas. Santana plays a flamenco guitar

Flamenco guitar

A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar. Flamenco guitar also refers to toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of Flamenco.-Brief history:...

 solo

Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 during the intro

Introduction (music)

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 and at the conclusion

Conclusion (music)

In music, the conclusion is the ending of a composition and may take the form of a coda or outro.Pieces using sonata form typically use the recapitulation to conclude a piece, providing closure through the repetition of thematic material from the exposition in the tonic key...

. This is a first for him. The flamenco guitar solo during the coda is accompanied by a keyboard

Musical keyboard

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 flourish

Fanfare

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 by Tom Coster

Tom Coster

Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the U.S...

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Verão Vermelho is Portuguese for Red Summer

Red Summer of 1919

Red Summer describes the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. In some cases groups of blacks fought back, notably in Chicago, where, along with Washington, D.C....

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Elis Regina's version

This song was originally performed by Elis Regina, as it appeared on her 1970 album Em Pleno Verão. Her version only clocked in at 1 min 38 sec. Regina literally joins the orchestra in a wordless tour-de-force, which is ended by a fadeout. Santana's version of "Verão Vermelho" also has a fadeout ending with a flamenco guitar solo and flourish, which goes on for about a minute while gradually fading out. The song was composed by Nonato Buzar.