Most people know bossa nova and samba, but fewer outside of Brazil know about the great country music of Pernambuco — a northeastern state in Brazil–called forró (pronounced for-ho). This is the music ...
Gilberto Gil, one of the all-time greatest Brazilian musicians, is coming to LA Tuesday, October 23rd, for an all-forró show. Forró is country party music from northeastern Brazil in the state of ...
Brazilian singer/guitarist Gilberto Gil may be 70, but he is not content on tour to simply recreate his lilting, tuneful hits. Never miss a beat. Get our free daily newsletter. District Line Daily ...
Gil launched his six-piece band with “Fé Na Festa” ("Faith in the Festival"), a jumpy, infectious forró exuding the flavour of the red-earth farmlands where it was born and which remains in the singer ...
The evening was a total contrast, musically and culturally, with the cool of Rio’s bossas and the rhythmic African complexities of samba which have always inspired Gil’s eclectic repertoire, but forró ...
The former Brazilian minister of culture advised hecklers that he "wouldn't be playing the hits – only forró, just for a change", and proceeded to continue the musical experiments that he began back ...
Some 40 years later, Gil is still going strong. He’s left behind an incredible legacy as a musician and also as a politician — he served as Brazil’s minister of culture until quite recently, stepping ...
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Brazil's former minister of culture is enjoying himself. Freed from the constraints of office, the country's best-known singer-songwriter is clearly determined to show that his voice, guitar work and ...