Gilberto Gil

Person · Open Library

Born

1942-06-26

Works

18

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician, politician, and writer. With a career spanning over six decades, he is known for his significant contributions to Brazilian music and for winning Grammy Awards, Latin Grammy Awards, and the French government's National Order of Merit (1997). In 1999, he was named an "Artist for Peace" by UNESCO.

Known for

• 3 Obás de Xangô — Self2025
• Show 60 Anos — Self2025
• Samba Infinite — Librarian2025
• Rita Lee: Mania de Você — Self2025
• Ritas — Self (archive footage)2025
• Cazuza: Good News — Self2025
• Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei - A Última Turnê — Self2025
• Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris — Self : Vocals & Guitar2025
• Beat - a film about Jazz — himself2025
• Cazuza Além da Música — Self2025

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

BR

Active from

1942-06-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

811,596

Total plays

22,937,854

Gilberto Gil (born 26 June, 1942) is a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter, and Brazil's former minister of culture. He began his career as a bossa nova musician, but soon began writing songs that reflected a new focus on political awareness and social activism, along with fellow singer Caetano Veloso. In the 1970s, Gil added new elements of African and North American music to his already broad palette, and continued to release a steady stream of albums, including Realce and Refazenda. <

via Last.fm · Gilberto Gil

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,321x

2. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

   · 2020 · cited 8,846x

3. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

   · 2018 · cited 8,675x

4. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI

   · 2020 · cited 7,859x

5. The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor

   · 2016 · cited 7,460x

via Crossref · CC0

Key dates

Born

26 June 1942

via Wikidata · CC0

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Gilberto

Gender

male

Citizenship

Brazil

Place of birth

Salvador

Spouse

Nana Caymmi

Occupation

bandleader

Educated at

Federal University of Bahia

Political party

Green Party

Languages spoken

Brazilian Portuguese