The Topsy-turvy World Of Gilberto Gil

By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira - better known as Gilberto Gil - is the sweet scientist of Brazilian popular music. Born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1942, Gil brought Afro power and a powerful intellectual curiosity to the culturally cannibalistic Tropicália movement that rocked and radicalized Brazil during the late 1960s. No Brazilian artist covered as much artistic ground as Gilberto did over a long, brilliant and commercially successful career, one that continues in 2010 with yet… more »