After hearing The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Gilberto Gil filtered its sound and much more through his Brazilian ears to help create Tropicália, a musical form so powerful that ...

The Brazilian artist joined Tom for an interview this weekend and you can hear it in the archives here: Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil formed the Tropicalia movement back in the late 60s along with ...

Tom Moon says simplicity is beauty in the new live album from Brazilian music legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Sometimes there's beauty in simplicity. That's how music reviewer Tom Moon feels ...

It’s nearly impossible to think of Brazilian music without thinking of Gilberto Gil. He helped shape Brazilian popular music through the Tropicalia movement. He went from being a political prisoner in ...

Very rarely do we get to celebrate history with some of the people who made it. But that's exactly the place Jasmine Garsd and I found ourselves in this week's episode of Alt.Latino, when we ...

Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are titans of Tropicália, a strain of Sixties Brazilian pop (or música popular brasileira) that drew on João Gilberto’s sublime bossa nova, the Beatles’ kaleidoscopic ...