Desde Que O Samba É Samba is a Brazilian song performed by Caetano Veloso with Gilberto Gil, released in 2000 on the album A Bossa De Caetano. The piece, in a reflective bossa nova style, runs 5 minutes and 8 seconds. Lyrically it portrays sadness as a companion to samba and asserts that the samba is timeless—the samba has not yet arrived, but it will be born and it will not die. The lyrics also offer a compact philosophy of samba, calling it the father of pleasure and the son of pain, a powerful transformative force in Brazilian life. The track showcases Veloso’s poetic voice alongside Gilberto Gil, bridging classic samba with contemporary Brazilian pop.
