“I have a hard time with modern technology,” Brazilian icon Gilberto Gil says, describing the theme of his latest CD, Banda Larga Cordel. “I admit that I use it with moderation, but I am nevertheless ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...