Gilberto Gil, vocals and guitar
Bem Gil, guitar
Domenico Lancelotti, drums and percussion
Mestrinho, accordion

Gilberto Gil releases a new album in 2014 that celebrates the music of the great João Gilberto in this “two Gilbertos” event. While in college studying business administration, Gil heard singer and guitarist João Gilberto on the radio and was immediately smitten; he bought a guitar and learned to play and sing bossa nova. An original founder of the Tropicália movement in Brazil in the late 1960s who was exiled to London for his revolutionary role in conflating the seemingly threatening lyrics of US and European rock music with Brazilian musical traditions, Gil is today recognized as a pioneer of world music. From musical revolutionary to international pop star to beloved statesman, Brazil’s former Minister of Culture returns to Ann Arbor with his romantic homage to the father of bossa nova.

Performance note:
This concert will be primarily performed in Gilberto Gil’s native Brazilian Portuguese.