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 ...

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.

What a pleasure it is to watch two masters at work. That’s what I kept thinking Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater, where Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil — two aging giants of Brazilian pop whose ...

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 ...

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 ...

From 2003 to ’08 Gilberto Gil served as Brazil’s culture minister, helping underprivileged kids gain access to technology and forging global aesthetic links with a missionary’s zeal. On Tuesday night ...

Editor's note: Gilberto Gil performs tonight at the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center in New Bedford. Tickets are $86-$36, available online at www.zeiterion.org, or by calling (508) 994-2900. Gilberto ...

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 ...

Acerbic, innovative and unwilling to play by the rules, Gilberto Gil is often described as Brazil's Bob Dylan. If only Dylan was half as creative these days as Gil. After almost 40 years as a ...

Gilberto Gil, Brazil's Minister of Culture, has announced he is giving up his political post to concentrate on his music career. Nominees for 44th Annual Grammy Awards Here is a list of the nominees ...