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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Brazilian pop star Gilberto Gil has forged a career as a songwriter of complex rhythms and themes. But his new project seems almost simple. As the title, Bandadois, indicates, the new live recording ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gilberto Gil remains an absolute giant of Brazilian music. While sitting in a parked car outside a Houston mega-church, the Chronicle spoke by phone with the famed singer-songwriter from his home in ...

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 ...