Divino Maravilhoso directly translates to Divine Marvelous. It is a rock song written by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Gal Costa performed this song for the very first time at the TV Record music festival in 1968 and then it was featured on her first solo album in 1969, self-titled Gal Costa. Gal emulates American female vocalists like Janis Joplin and Grace Slick by employing similar Rock histrionics, along with grunts. Gal was approached by Velose and Gil and wanted to perform the song in a ‘new and explosive way’. She wanted to do this to show that there was another side to the bossa nova singing Gal Costa. Half the audience booed her while the other half applauded her. Costa, along with Veloso and Gil, was part of the tropicalistas. Artists who opposed the right wing military dictatorship but also had differences with the political left. This is also where the rock influence plays a big part in the music since it alludes to rebelling to the societal norms. The title ‘Divino Maravilhoso’ was adopted by the tropicalists as the name for a television program on TV Tupi, which was the first television network in South America. Divino Maravilhoso reflects the mood of the late 60s, which was a period of countercultural experimentation and heavy political repression. There was a strong military rule because of a coup earlier in 1964, however it was also a period of significant economic growth for Brazil. Under the military rule, music was one of the few forms of expression that the opponents of the regime had left.