Preta Gil

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Brazil

Active from

1974-08-08

Active to

2025-07-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

244,408

Total plays

3,202,697

Preta Maria Gadelha Gil Moreira (Rio de Janeiro, 8 August 1974 - New York, 20 July 2025) was a Brazilian singer, actress, presenter, and businesswoman. Daughter of musician Gilberto Gil and businesswoman Sandra Gadelha, she was also the half-sister of musician Bem Gil, culinary expert and presenter Bela Gil, and singer Nara Gil, and the niece of musician Caetano Veloso. She began her professional career as a director at the production companies Conspiração and Dueto, where she was also a partne

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,790x

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

   · 2020 · cited 9,181x

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

   · 2018 · cited 9,045x

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

   · 2020 · cited 8,587x

5. The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor

   · 2016 · cited 7,740x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Maria

Gender

female

Citizenship

Brazil

Place of birth

Rio de Janeiro

Place of death

New York City

Father

Gilberto Gil

Occupation

songwriter

Languages spoken

Brazilian Portuguese

Native language

Brazilian Portuguese

Award

Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)

Hair colour

brown hair

Genre

música popular brasileira

Instrument

voice

Record label

Universal Music Group

Official website

www.pretagil.com.br

Image

Preta Gil 4 (cropped).jpg

Voice type

mezzo-soprano

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