Gilberto Gil

At 81 years old, Gilberto Gil has this physical status:

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (Brazilian Portuguese: [iwbtu iw]; born 26 June 1942), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician best known for both his musical invention and political activism. He served as Brazil's Culture Minister from 2003 to 2008 in President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration. Gil's musical style incorporates a variety of influences, including rock, Brazilian music, samba, African music, and reggae.

Gil began playing music as an infant and was performing in his first band as a teenager. He began his career as a nova guitarist and went on to write songs that reflected a shift in political awareness and social activism. He was a central figure in the Msica's burgeoning brasileira and tropicalália movements of the 1960s, as well as artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. Both Gil and Veloso were seen as a threat during Brazil's 1964 military dictatorship, and the two were held for nine months before being instructed to leave the country. Gil moved to London but returned to Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career as well as being a politician and environmental campaigner.

Early life (1942–1963)

Gil was born in Salvador and spent a majority of his childhood in Ituaçu. Ituaçu was a small town of fewer than a thousand people, located in Bahia's serta, or countryside. José Gil Moreira, his father, was a physician, but his mother, Claudina Passos Gil Moreira, was an elementary school teacher. He attended a Marist Brothers academy as a youth. Gil stayed in Ituaçu until he was nine years old, before returning to Salvador for secondary school.

Gil's interest in music began when he was only two or two and a half years old, "I told my mother that I was going to be a singer or president of my country." He grew up listening to the forró music of his native northeast and became fascinated with Salvador's street performers. He began to play the drums and trumpet by early on, by listening to Bob Nelson on the radio. Gil's mother was the "chief supporter" in his musical aspirations; she bought him an accordion and sent him to music school in Salvador, which he attended for four years. Gil began playing classical music as an accordionist, but grew more interested in Brazil's folk and popular music. He was particularly inspired by singer and accordion player Luiz Gonzaga's music; he began to sing and play the accordion in an emulation of Gonzaga's hits. Gil has recalled that he grew to identify with Gonzaga "because he sang of the world around [him], the world in which [he] encountered."

Gil encountered Dorival Caymmi, a songwriter who, according to him, brought Salvador's "beach-oriented" samba music. Gil's formative influences were Gonzaga and Caymmi. Gil was introduced to a variety of styles of jazz, including American big band jazz and tango while in Salvador. Gil and his family immigrated to Salvador, Mexico, in 1950. He formed Os Desafinados ("The Out of Tunes"), which was a youth in high school, in which he performed accordion and vibraphone as well as sing. Os Desafinados was influenced by American rock and roll artists, including Elvis Presley, as well as Brazilian de Janeiro performing groups. The band appeared on stages from two to three years. Joo Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, influenced by Joo Gilberto's, he landed on the guitar as his primary instrument and began to play bossa nova.

Personal life

Gil has been married four times. Nara and Marilia were his two children, with first wife Belina Aguiar. He was then married to famous singer Nana Caymmi, but they had no children. Sandra Gadelha, his third wife, had three children: Pedro, Preta, and Maria. Sandra influenced Dr. Drao, one of his most popular songs, because she was with him during the brutal days of Brazilian dictatorship and exiled them both. Flora Giordano, his fourth wife, is his fourth wife. Bem, Isabella, and Jose are three children of the couple. Pedro Gil, Egotrip's drummer, died in a car accident in 1990. Preta Gil, a writer and singer, is his daughter with Sandra Gadelha.

Gil's religious convictions have shifted dramatically over his lifetime. He was a Christian at birth but was later inspired by Eastern philosophy and faith, and later, explored African spirituality. He is an agnostic. He practices yoga and is a vegetarian.

Gil has been open about the fact that he has used marijuana for a large portion of his life. He has stated that "that drugs should be handled like pharmaceuticals, regulated, but that monitoring and monitoring as medicines should be carried out."

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Musical career (1963–present)

Caetano Veloso, a guitarist and singer, arrived at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (Federal University of Bahia) in 1963. The two bands began collaborating and performing together, resulting in the production of a single and EP. At the opening night of Maria Bethânia (Veloso's sister), Gal Costa, and Tom Zé, Gil and Veloso performed bossa nova and traditional Brazilian songs at the Vila Velha Theatre in July 1964, a performance entitled "Us, for Example" (no. Gil and the group continued to perform at the venue, and he eventually became the concert's musical director. Gil collaborated with members of this group on the 1968 album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses, whose style was inspired by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album that Gil listened to regularly. Tropicália is the product of the tropicália movement, according to Gil. Ou Panis et Circenses was the source of the escalating. A conflation of musical and cultural transitions in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s, primarily bossa nova and the Jovem Guarda ("Young Wave") collective, a movement that was deemed threatening by the Brazilian government of the time.

Gil earned most of his money in the 1960s by selling bananas and making jingles for television advertisements; he was also employed by Unilever's Brazilian division. Gessy-Lever, John Leopolo. He migrated to So Paulo in 1965 and had a hit single when his song "Louvaço" (which later appeared on the album of the same name) was released by Elis Regina. The 1969 hit "Aquine Abraço" was his first as a solo artist. Gil appeared on several television shows through the 1960s, often including other "tropicalistas" from the Tropicalismo movement. After airing a satirical interpretation of the national anthem in December 1968, one of these programs, Divino Maravilhoso, which featured Veloso, attracted government television censorship.

The Brazilian military government detained Gil and Veloso in February 1969, took them from So Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, and four more under house arrest before being released on the condition that they leave the country. Veloso was the first person detained; the police moved to Gil's house soon afterward. Veloso had ordered Andréa Gadelha to warn Gil of the possibility of arrest, but Gil was eventually led into the police van along with Veloso. They were not arrested on suspicion of any reason or accusation for their detention. Gil claims that the government perceived [represented] a threat [to them] as something new, something that can't quite be explained, but that won't do. That is risky." Gil began to meditate, follow a macrobiotic diet, and read about Eastern philosophy during his prison term. During his time in prison, he composed four songs, one of which was "Cédero" ("Electronic Brain"), which first appeared on his 1969 album Gilberto Gil and then on his 2006 album Gil Luminoso. After being told not to leave Brazil, Gil and Veloso were exiled to London, England. In July 1969, the two Brazilian musicians appeared together in Salvador and later traveled to Portugal, Paris, and London. He and Veloso, along with their wives and manager, bought a house in Chelsea. Gil was instrumental in the 1971 Glastonbury Free Festival and was exposed to reggae while living in London; he remembers listening to Bob Marley (who later covered), Jimmy Cliff (who later covered), and Burning Spear. He was heavily inspired by and involved with the city's rock scene as well as playing with Yes, Pink Floyd, and the Incredible String Band. However, Gilberto Gil (Nêga) appeared solo while in London, but not always in London. Gil attended jazz performances, including Miles Davis and Sun Ra, in addition to being involved in the reggae and rock scenes.

Gil's return to Bahia in 1972 largely focused on his musical career and environmental advocacy work. Expresso 2222 was released in the same year as two new singles were introduced. Gil toured the United States and recorded an English-language album as well, continuing to produce a steady stream of albums throughout the 1970s, including Realce and Refazenda. Gil participated in a revival of the Afro-Brazilian afoxé heritage in Carnaval in the early 1970s, joining the Filhos de Gandhi ("Sons of Gandhi") performance group, which only permitted black Brazilians to join. Gil also recorded the "Patuscada de Gandhi," a lyric poem about the Filhos de Gandhi on his 1977 album Refavela. More attention was paid to afoxé groups in Carnaval because of the exposure that Gil had given them by his presence; the organisations in Carnaval's increased in size as well. In the late 1970s, he left Brazil for Africa and visited Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and Nigeria. He also worked with Jimmy Cliff and launched a "No Woman, No Cry" film with him in 1980, Brazil's number one hit that introduced reggae.

Gil contributed "Refazenda" to the Red Hot + Rio in 1996, which was developed by the Red Hot Organization.

The live version of his album Quanta's 1998 success garnered the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. He received the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album for Eletracticico in 2005. Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in Stockholm, the prize's first Latin American winner, was awarded the Polar Music Prize in May 2005. On October 16th of the same year, he received the Légion d'honneur from the French government, coinciding with the Année du Brésil en France ("Brazil's Year in France").

He released the album Fé Na Festa in 2010, a tribute to forró, a Brazilian style of music. Fans who were hoping to hear a set containing his hits were dissatisfied with his tour to promote his album. Gilberto Gil plays himself in a long-running documentary shot around the southern hemisphere by Swiss filmmaker Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, Viramundo: a cultural journey with Gilberto Gil, released worldwide. The film also introduces the T.I.D.E. Pan-European and multi-support launches are among the pan-European experiments.

The Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone magazine named OK OK OK OK OK as the fourth best Brazilian album of 2018 and as one of the best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2018.

Political career (1987–present)

"I'd prefer to see my position in the government as that of an administrator or boss," Gil says of his political views. However, politics is still a necessary component. His political career began in 1987, when he was elected to a local position in Bahia and became the Salvador secretary of culture. He was elected to the city council in 1988 and then became the city commissioner for environmental protection. However, he resigned after a one-term and declined to run for the National Congress of Brazil. Gil left the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party in 1990 and joined the Green Party. Gil founded Onda Azul ("Blue Wave"), a Brazilian water security group, during this period. He maintained a full-time musical career at the same time, and recovered briefly from politics in 1992, shortly after the introduction of Parabolicamará, which was regarded as one of his most influential efforts. Gil accepted his appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on October 16, 2001, having promoted the group before his appointment.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in January 2003 and named Gil as Brazil's second black person to serve in the country's cabinet. The appointment was controversial among political and cultural journalists and the Brazilian press; a remark Gil made about his salary difficulties was a point of contention; a remark Gil made about his salary difficulties sparked particular outrage. Gil was not a member of Lula's Workers' Party and had not participated in the development of the city's cultural program. Gil began a collaboration with Brazil and the Creative Commons shortly after becoming Minister. In 2003, he held a concert in the United Nations General Assembly to honor the victims of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. He appeared together with Secretary General Kofi Annan in that performance.

As Minister, he funded Culture Points, which gave grants to people living in impoverished areas of the country's cities. "You now have young people who are becoming designers, who are making it into television and being used more often by television and samba schools, and revitalizing degraded communities," Gil said. It's a new facet of government, a new role." Gil also expressed interest in establishing a website with freely downloadable Brazilian music. Following Gil's appointment, the department's budgets have increased by more than 50%. Gil declared his intention to resign from his position in November 2007 due to a vocal cord polyp. Gil's first two attempts to resign were turned down by the Lula, who accepted a new request in July 2008. On this occasion, Lula said Gil is "going back to being a great artist" and that priority should be given to what is most important to him.

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