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Gilberto Gil

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

26/06/1942

Age

83 years old

Place of Birth

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Gilberto Gil

Biography

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira, known professionally as Gilberto Gil, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Known For

Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos

A Última Vanguarda

They Shot the Piano Player

Môa, Mother Africa Roots

Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso

Chic Show

Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer

Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu

Filmography

Cast

2024

Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos

as Self

2024

A Última Vanguarda

as Self

2023

They Shot the Piano Player

as Self (voice)

2023

Môa, Mother Africa Roots

as Self

2023

Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso

as Self

2023

Chic Show

as Self

2023

Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba

as Self

2023

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

2022

Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Su...

as Self

2022

Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu

as Self (archive footage)

2022

O Presidente Improvável

as Self

2020

Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil

as Self

2019

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pe...

as Self

2019

October

as Self

2018

Smetak

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Tropicália: 50 Anos

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Axé: Music of a People

as Self

2016

Yorimatã

as Self

2014

Dominguinhos

as Self

2013

Viramundo

as Self

2013

Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia

as Self

2012

Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!

as Self

2012

Tropicália

as Self

2012

Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust

as Self

2011

O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangac...

as Self

2011

Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu...

as Self

2010

A Night in 67

as Self

2010

Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Ca...

as Self

2009

Beyond Ipanema

as Self

2009

Dzi Croquettes

as Self

2009

Loki: Arnaldo Baptista

as Self

2008

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto

as Self

2008

The Man Who Bottled Clouds

as Self

2008

Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Princ...

as Self

2006

Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Da...

2006

Fabricating Tom Zé

as Self

2006

Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra

as Self

2005

Vinicius de Moraes

as Self - Singer 'Formosa'

2005

Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume

as Self

2005

Looking for Black Orpheus

as Self

2005

Phono 73: A Country and its Music

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Born To Be Blind

as Self (uncredited)

2003

Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought

as Self

2002

Viva São João!

as Self

2002

Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya

as Self

2002

Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico

as Self

2002

Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei

as Self

2001

Samba Riachão

as Self

2001

O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho

as Self

2001

Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste

2000

I Want

as (voice)

1998

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between...

as Self - Narrator

1997

Ed Mort

as Silva 5

1996

Bahia de Todos os Sambas

as Self

1996

Jorge Amado

as Self

1995

The Mandarin

as Sinhô

1993

Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias...

as Self

1986

Talking Cinema

as Party Guest

1984

Making of - Quilombo

as Self

1983

Corações a Mil

1981

Brasil

as Self

1977

Os Doces Bárbaros

as Self

1974

Bahia de Todos os Santos

as Self

1974

Álbum de Música

as Self

1974

Passe Livre

as Self

1972

The Demiurge

as Pã

1969

Bahia, For Example

as Self

2025

Cazuza: Good News

as Self

2025

Ritas

as Self (archive footage)

2025

Samba Infinite

as Librarian

2025

Rita Lee: Mania de Você

as Self

2025

Show 60 Anos

as Self

2024

Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi

as Self

2024

3 Obás de Xangô

2024

Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta

2024

Toquinho Maravilhoso

as Self

2022

Breaking Myths

as Self (archive footage)

2021

Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim

as Self

2021

Arraial do Gil

as Self

2021

Pelé

as Self

2020

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fo...

as Self

2020

Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máqu...

as Self

2020

Encontros Tropicais

as Self

2019

Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1

as Self

2019

Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar

as Self

2019

Refavela 40

as Self

2019

Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro

as Self

2019

O Barato de Iacanga

as Self (archive footage)

2018

All Love Songs

as Self

2018

O Outro Lado da Memória

as Self

2018

Dê Lembranças a Todos

as Self

2017

Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End

as Self

2017

Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

as Self

2016

Pitanga

as Self

2016

Beard, Hair & Stache

as Self

2016

Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New...

as Self

2016

Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico

as Self

2015

Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista

as Self

2015

Circo Voador - A Nave

as Self

2015

Two Friends, a Century of Music

as Self

2015

André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Bra...

as Self

2014

Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo

as Gilberto Gil

2014

Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração

as Self

2013

A Farra do Circo

as Self

2012

Aperana Street 52

as Self

2011

Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano

as Self

2010

2012: Time for Change

as Self

2010

Duetos

as Self

2010

Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music

as Self

2010

Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa

as Self

2009

Hello, Hello, Terezinha!

as Self

2008

Permanent Pan-Cinema

as Self (voice)

2008

Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia

as Self

2007

Cidade do Samba

as Self

2006

O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento

as Self

2004

Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico

as Self

2004

MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo

as Self

2003

Outros (Doces) Bárbaros

as Self

2001

Brazil's Maria Bethânia

as Self

2001

Toquinho

as Self

1994

Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil

as Self

1992

Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicáli...

as Self

1989

Dias de Euforia

as Self

1989

Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delica...

as Self

1989

Ôrí

as Self

1988

Hunting Season

as Self

1987

Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil,...

as Self

1986

Infinita Tropicália

as Self

1983

Gilbertianas Brasileiras

as Self

1979

Caterina Valente presents Brazilian musi...

as Self

1975

Gilberto Gil - Refazenda

as Self

1972

Semana de Arte Moderna

as himself

1970

O Tempo e o Som

as Self

Crew

2020

Brazil is thee Haiti is (t)here

as Music

2009

The Assailant

as Songs

2007

The Man Who Challenged the Devil

as Songs

2005

Looking for Black Orpheus

as Original Music Composer

2003

Reticulum Rex

as Thanks

2002

Viva São João!

as Music

2000

Me, You, Them

as Music

1994

Rio's Love Song

as Music

1987

Jubiabá

as Original Music Composer

1987

Subway to the Stars

as Music

1984

Quilombo

as Original Music Composer

1983

Corações a Mil

as Producer

1978

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo: O Minotauro

as Original Music Composer

1977

Tent of Miracles

as Music

1970

Beste

as Music

1970

Copacabana Mon Amour

as Music

1970

Viva Cariri

as Original Music Composer

1969

Brazil Year 2000

as Music

1968

Domingo no Parque

as Music

1968

Domingo no Parque

as Original Story

1965

Viramundo

as Theme Song Performance