Gilberto Gil
Biography
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician, politician, and writer. With a career spanning over six decades, he is known for his significant contributions to Brazilian music and for winning Grammy Awards, Latin Grammy Awards, and the French government's National Order of Merit (1997). In 1999, he was named an "Artist for Peace" by UNESCO.
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Acting History
2025
Cazuza Além da Música as Self
2025Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei - A Última Turnê as Self
20253 Obás de Xangô as Self
2025Cazuza: Good News as Self
2025Ritas as Self (archive footage)
2025Samba Infinite as Librarian
2025Rita Lee: Mania de Você as Self
2025Show 60 Anos as Self
2024Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi as Self
2024Angélica: 50 & Uns
2024Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta
2024Toquinho Maravilhoso as Self
2024Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos as Self
2024A Última Vanguarda as Self
2023They Shot the Piano Player as Self (voice)
2023Môa, Mother Africa Roots as Self
2023Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso as Self
2023Chic Show as Self
2023Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba as Self
2023O Repórter do Poder as Self
2023The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
2022Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer as Self
2022Breaking Myths as Self (archive footage)
2022Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu as Self (archive footage)
2022Gil Family as Self
2022O Presidente Improvável as Self
20222022 as Self
2021Astral Journey as Self
2021Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim as Self
2021Arraial do Gil as Self
2021Pelé as Self
2020Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil as Self
2020De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade as Self
2020Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo as Self
2020Encontros Tropicais as Self
2019Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1 as Self
2019Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar as Self
2019Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa as Self
2019Refavela 40 as Self
2019October as Self
2019Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro as Self
20191964: Brazil between weapons and books as Himself
2019O Barato de Iacanga as Self (archive footage)
2018All Love Songs as Self
2018O Outro Lado da Memória as Self
2018Amigos, Sons e Palavras as Self
2018Dê Lembranças a Todos as Self
2018Smetak as Self (archive footage)
2017Tropicália: 50 Anos as Self (archive footage)
2017Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End as Self
2017O Nome Dela é Gal as Self
2017Conversa com Bial as Self
2017Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas as Self
2017Axé: Music of a People as Self
2016Pitanga as Self
2016Beard, Hair & Stache as Self
2016Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World as Self
2016Yorimatã as Self
2016Vamos Tocar as Self
2016Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico as Self
2015Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista as Self
2015Circo Voador - A Nave as Self
2015Two Friends, a Century of Music as Self
2015André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music as Self
2014Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo as Self
2014Dominguinhos as Self
2014A Bola as NARRADOR
2014Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração as Self
2013A Farra do Circo as Self
2013Viramundo as Self
2013Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia as Self
2012Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now! as Self
2012Tropicália as Self
2012Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust as Self
2012Aperana Street 52 as Self
2011Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano as Self
2011Músicos de Latinoamérica as Self
2011O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois as Self
2011Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo as Self
20102012: Time for Change as Self
2010A Night in 67 as Self
2010Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1 as Self
2010Duetos as Self
2010Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music as Self
2010Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa as Self
2009Hello, Hello, Terezinha! as Self
2009Beyond Ipanema as Self
2009Dzi Croquettes as Self
2009Loki: Arnaldo Baptista as Self
2008RiP!: A Remix Manifesto as Self
2008Permanent Pan-Cinema as Self (voice)
2008The Man Who Bottled Clouds as Self
2008Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia as Self
2008Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal as Self
2007Cidade do Samba as Self
2006Por Toda Minha Vida as Self
2006O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento as Self
2006Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
2006Fabricating Tom Zé as Self
2006Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra as Self
2005Vinicius de Moraes as Self - Singer 'Formosa'
2005Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume as Self
2005Looking for Black Orpheus as Self
2005Phono 73: A Country and its Music as Self (archive footage)
2004Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico as Self
2004MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo as Self
2003Born To Be Blind as Self (uncredited)
2003Celebridade as Self
2003Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought as Self
2003Outros (Doces) Bárbaros as Self
2002Viva São João! as Self
2002Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya as Self
2002Desejos de Mulher as Self
2002Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico as Self
2002Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei as Self
2001Samba Riachão as Self
2001Brazil's Maria Bethânia as Self
2001Toquinho as Self
2001O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho as Self
2001Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
2000O Povo Brasileiro as Self
2000I Want as (voice)
1998Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds as Self - Narrator
1997Ed Mort as Silva 5
1997Milton Nascimento - A Sede do Peixe as Self
1996Bahia de Todos os Sambas as Self
1996Jorge Amado as Self
1995The Mandarin as Sinhô
1994Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil as Self
1993Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista as Self
1992Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália as Self
1989Dias de Euforia as Self
1989Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy as Self
1989Ôrí as Self
1988Hunting Season as Self
1987Sacrée Soirée as Self
1987Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion as Self
1986Criança Esperança as Self
1986Talking Cinema as Party Guest
1986Infinita Tropicália as Self
1984Making of - Quilombo as Self
1983Corações a Mil
1983Gilbertianas Brasileiras as Self
1982Chico Anysio Show as Self
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1981Brasil as Self
1980Grandes Nomes as Self
1979Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music as Self
1977Os Doces Bárbaros as Self
1977The Bunglers
1975Gilberto Gil - Refazenda as Self
1974Bahia de Todos os Santos as Self
1974Passe Livre as Self
1974Álbum de Música as Self
1972The Demiurge as Pã
1972Semana de Arte Moderna as himself
1970O Tempo e o Som as Self
1969Bahia, For Example as Self
—Gilberto Gil as Self