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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Moon says simplicity is beauty in the new live album from Brazilian music legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Sometimes there's beauty in simplicity. That's how music reviewer Tom Moon feels ...

In late April, a haze falls over New York City. 4/20, the day that our nation’s most mellow fellows dedicate to enjoying marijuana in all forms, generally doesn’t prompt its practitioners to ever even ...

Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are titans of Tropicália, a strain of Sixties Brazilian pop (or música popular brasileira) that drew on João Gilberto’s sublime bossa nova, the Beatles’ kaleidoscopic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...