Gilberto Gil

Personal Info

Birthday

June 26, 1942

(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

Talking Cinema

The Mandarin

Ed Mort

The Demiurge

Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo

I Want

Samba Infinite

Filmography

2025
Cazuza: Good News
as Self
Ritas
as Self (archive footage)
Samba Infinite
as Librarian
Rita Lee: Mania de Você
as Self
Show 60 Anos
as Self
2024
Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
as Self
Toquinho Maravilhoso
as Self
Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
as Self
A Última Vanguarda
as Self
2023
They Shot the Piano Player
as Self (voice)
Môa, Mother Africa Roots
as Self
Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso
as Self
Chic Show
as Self
Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba
as Self
2022
Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
as Self
Breaking Myths
as Self (archive footage)
Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
as Self (archive footage)
O Presidente Improvável
as Self
2021
Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim
as Self
Arraial do Gil
as Self
Pelé
as Self
2020
Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil
as Self
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo
as Self
Encontros Tropicais
as Self
2019
Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1
as Self
Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
as Self
Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
as Self
Refavela 40
as Self
October
as Self
Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
as Self
O Barato de Iacanga
as Self (archive footage)
2018
All Love Songs
as Self
O Outro Lado da Memória
as Self
Dê Lembranças a Todos
as Self
Smetak
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Tropicália: 50 Anos
as Self (archive footage)
Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
as Self
Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas
as Self
Axé: Music of a People
as Self
2016
Pitanga
as Self
Beard, Hair & Stache
as Self
Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World
as Self
Yorimatã
as Self
Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico
as Self
2015
Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
as Self
Circo Voador - A Nave
as Self
Two Friends, a Century of Music
as Self
André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
as Self
2014
Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo
as Gilberto Gil
Dominguinhos
as Self
Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
as Self
2013
A Farra do Circo
as Self
Viramundo
as Self
Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
as Self
2012
Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
as Self
Tropicália
as Self
Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
as Self
Aperana Street 52
as Self
2011
Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
as Self
O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois
as Self
Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo
as Self
2010
2012: Time for Change
as Self
A Night in 67
as Self
Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1
as Self
Duetos
as Self
Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music
as Self
Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa
as Self
2009
Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
as Self
Beyond Ipanema
as Self
Dzi Croquettes
as Self
Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
as Self
2008
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
as Self
Permanent Pan-Cinema
as Self (voice)
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
as Self
Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia
as Self
Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
as Self
2007
Cidade do Samba
as Self
2006
O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
as Self
Fabricating Tom Zé
as Self
Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
as Self
2005
Vinicius de Moraes
as Self - Singer 'Formosa'
Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
as Self
Looking for Black Orpheus
as Self
Phono 73: A Country and its Music
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico
as Self
MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo
as Self
2003
Born To Be Blind
as Self (uncredited)
Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
as Self
Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
as Self
2002
Viva São João!
as Self
Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya
as Self
Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
as Self
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
as Self
2001
Samba Riachão
as Self
Brazil's Maria Bethânia
as Self
Toquinho
as Self
O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
as Self
2000
I Want
as (voice)
1998
Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
as Self - Narrator
1997
Ed Mort
as Silva 5
1996
Bahia de Todos os Sambas
as Self
Jorge Amado
as Self
1995
The Mandarin
as Sinhô
1994
Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil
as Self
1993
Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista
as Self
1992
Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
as Self
1989
Dias de Euforia
as Self
Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
as Self
Ôrí
as Self
1988
Hunting Season
as Self
1987
Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
as Self
1986
Talking Cinema
as Party Guest
Infinita Tropicália
as Self
1984
Making of - Quilombo
as Self
1983
Gilbertianas Brasileiras
as Self
1981
Brasil
as Self
1979
Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music
as Self
1977
Os Doces Bárbaros
as Self
1975
Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
as Self
1974
Bahia de Todos os Santos
as Self
Álbum de Música
as Self
Passe Livre
as Self
1972
The Demiurge
as Pã
Semana de Arte Moderna
as himself
1970
O Tempo e o Som
as Self
1969
Bahia, For Example
as Self