Following on from our interview with DJ, producer, journalist, and label boss Daniel Haaksman, here is an exclusive extract ...

Gilberto Gil, one of Brazil's leading luminaries, is a founding father of the Tropicalism movement, whose everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink ethos is largely responsible for the harmonic and rhythmic ...

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born 26 June 1942), known professionally as Gilberto Gil (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʒiwˈbɛʁtu ˈʒiw]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his ...

After hearing The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Gilberto Gil filtered its sound and much more through his Brazilian ears to help create Tropicália, a musical form so powerful that ...

Two legends of Brazilian music, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, have teamed up for a new album. They've been close friends since the 1960s, when they helped launch the Tropicalia movement in Brazil.

Preta Gil, the Brazilian singer, actress, and daughter of music legend Gilberto Gil, has passed away at the age of 50. News of her death emerged on July 20, 2025, while she was undergoing treatment ...

About halfway through Gilberto Gil’s astonishing concert at Town Hall on Thursday night, he played “Desafinado” (“Off Key”) by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonça, made famous in 1959 by João ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Nate Chinen Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were the picture of unfussy enlightenment on Wednesday, in their first of two nights at the Brooklyn ...

Very rarely do we get to celebrate history with some of the people who made it. But that's exactly the place Jasmine Garsd and I found ourselves in this week's episode of Alt.Latino, when we ...

Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Gilberto Gil is so revered by his countrymen that, in 1992, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appointed him minister of culture -- a position he ...

A living legend of Brazilian music, Gilberto Gil is an extraordinary artist who has enjoyed a remarkably storied, adventurous career spanning over five decades. Initially cast as an improvisational ...