Neto became actively involved in the cultural scene in Salvador, where he met Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia.
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He was friends with several major figures of these movements, including the musicians mentioned above, the poets Décio Pignatari and Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, filmmaker Ivan Cardoso, and artist Hélio Oiticica.
Torquato Tasso | Agostinho Neto | Ernesto Neto | João Cabral de Melo Neto | Torquato Neto | Álvaro de Miranda Neto | Torquato Tasso (play) | Torquato Tasso (opera) | Coelho Neto | Carlos Jorge Neto Martins | Renato Neto | Miguel Neto | João Neto & Frederico | Edon Amaral Neto | Edmundo Alves de Souza Neto |
His compositions include the world famous Upa Neguinho (with Gianfrancesco Guarnieri), Pra Dizer Adeus (with Torquato Neto) (also known in its English version as "To say goodbye"), Choro Bandido (with Chico Buarque), Beatriz (with Chico Buarque), Arrastão (with Vinicius de Moraes), Canto triste and Ponteio (with Capinam).
Some names linked to the mimeograph generation and the marginal poetry were Torquato Neto, Ana Cristina Cesar, Waly Salomão, Glauber Rocha, Paulo Leminski, Caetano Veloso, Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.