Look back at soccer icon Pelé’s legacy as a singer-songwriter.
It is a much-less-known side of Pelé internationally: “I didn’t want the public to make the comparison between Pelé the composer and Pelé the football player,” he told British newspaperin 2006. “That would have been a huge injustice. In football, my talent was a gift from God. Music was just for fun.”
However, he kept honing his musical vocation throughout his life: “He was never far from a guitar, and he carried a miniature tape recorder to capture tunes or lyrics as the mood struck him,” wrote Lawrie Mifflin on her Pelé obituary for theto his single “Acredita No Véio ,” featuring Rodrigo and Gabriela just two years ago.
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