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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s nearly impossible to think of Brazilian music without thinking of Gilberto Gil. He helped shape Brazilian popular music through the Tropicalia movement. He went from being a political prisoner in ...

Gilberto Gil, who appears Wednesday at Masonic Auditorium, has every reason to rest on his laurels, but he continues to express his insatiable musical curiosity with an album that celebrates his past ...

The last time I saw Gilberto Gil play he was performing high-energy reggae with an electric band. Last night, though, it was an autumnal, acoustic trio full of saudade, that Brazilian word that is ...

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 ...

Nearly 25 years ago Gilberto Gil hit big in Brazil with a Portuguese version of Bob Marley’s anthem “No Woman No Cry.” Now the Brazilian legend pays tribute to the Jamaican legend once again, this ...