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.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

174

Birth Date

1942-06-26 00:00:00

Birth Place

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Known For

• Gilberto Gil
• Noites de João
• 

  Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei - A Última Turnê
• 

  Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris
• 

  Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim
• 

  Arraial do Gil

Credits

• actors (149 credits)

  • Gilberto Gil

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Noites de João

    Ele próprio

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei - A Última Turnê

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Beat - a film about Jazz

    himself

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • 3 Obás de Xangô

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Cazuza: Good News

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Ritas

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Samba Infinite

    Librarian

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Rita Lee: Mania de Você

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Show 60 Anos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris

    Self : Vocals & Guitar

    actor

    actors
    2025
  • Cazuza Além da Música

    - Episode 4 (2025) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 1 (2025) ... Self actor actors
    2025
  • Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Toquinho Maravilhoso

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • A Última Vanguarda

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • They Shot the Piano Player

    Self (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Môa, Mother Africa Roots

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Chic Show

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Breaking Myths

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • O Presidente Improvável

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Arraial do Gil

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Pelé

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Encontros Tropicais

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Refavela 40

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • October

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • 1964: Brazil between weapons and books

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • O Barato de Iacanga

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • All Love Songs

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • O Outro Lado da Memória

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Dê Lembranças a Todos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Smetak

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Tropicália: 50 Anos

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Dunas do Barato

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Axé: Music of a People

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2017
  • Pitanga

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Beard, Hair & Stache

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Yorimatã

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Circo Voador - A Nave

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Two Friends, a Century of Music

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2015
  • Gilbertos Samba Ao Vivo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Dominguinhos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • A Bola

    NARRADOR

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • A Farra do Circo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Viramundo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Tropicália

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Aperana Street 52

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • 2012: Time for Change

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • A Night in 67

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Duetos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Hello, Hello, Terezinha!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Beyond Ipanema

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Dzi Croquettes

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • RiP!: A Remix Manifesto

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Permanent Pan-Cinema

    Self (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • The Man Who Bottled Clouds

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Cidade do Samba

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Schenberguianas

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Por Toda Minha Vida: Elis Regina

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Fabricating Tom Zé

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Vinicius de Moraes

    Self - Singer 'Formosa'

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Looking for Black Orpheus

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Phono 73: A Country and its Music

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo - 10 Anos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Born To Be Blind

    Self (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Outros (Doces) Bárbaros

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Viva São João!

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Acústico MTV

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Samba Riachão

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Brazil's Maria Bethânia

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Toquinho

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Multishow Ao Vivo - Brasil

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • I Want

    (voice)

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

    Self - Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Ed Mort

    Silva 5

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Milton Nascimento - A Sede do Peixe

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Bahia de Todos os Sambas

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Jorge Amado

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • The Mandarin

    Sinhô

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Gilberto Gil: Unplugged

    Self (vocals and acoustic guitar)

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Beijoqueiro: Portrait of a Serial Kisser

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Dias de Euforia

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Ôrí

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Hunting Season

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Sacrée soirée

    - Episode 10 (1994) ... Self actor actors
    1987
  • Talking Cinema

    Party Guest

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Infinita Tropicália

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Making of - Quilombo

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Corações a Mil

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Gilbertianas Brasileiras

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • Champs-Elysées

    - Episode 17 (1988) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 33 (1982) ... Self actor actors
    1982
  • Brasil

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Os Doces Bárbaros

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Gilberto Gil - Refazenda

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Bahia de Todos os Santos

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Passe Livre

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Álbum de Música

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Semana de Arte Moderna

    himself

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • The Demiurge

    Pã

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • O Tempo e o Som

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Bahia, For Example

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1969

• writing (2 credits)

  • Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris

    author

    writing
    2025
  • Domingo no Parque

    original story

    writing
    1968

• crew (2 credits)

  • Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris

    compositor

    crew
    2025
  • Reticulum Rex

    thanks

    crew
    2003

• sound (20 credits)

  • Gilberto Gil @ Philharmonie De Paris

    original music composer

    sound
    2025
  • brazil is thee haiti is (t)here

    music

    sound
    2020
  • The Assailant

    songs

    sound
    2009
  • The Man Who Challenged the Devil

    songs

    sound
    2007
  • Looking for Black Orpheus

    original music composer

    sound
    2005
  • Viva São João!

    music

    sound
    2002
  • Me, You, Them

    music

    sound
    2000
  • Rio's Love Song

    music

    sound
    1994
  • Gilberto Gil: Unplugged

    music producer

    sound
    1994
  • Jubiabá

    original music composer

    sound
    1987
  • Subway to the Stars

    music

    sound
    1987
  • Quilombo

    original music composer

    sound
    1984
  • Sítio do Picapau Amarelo: O Minotauro

    original music composer

    sound
    1978
  • Tent of Miracles

    music

    sound
    1977
  • Beste

    music

    sound
    1970
  • Copacabana Mon Amour

    music

    sound
    1970
  • Viva Cariri

    original music composer

    sound
    1970
  • Brazil Year 2000

    music

    sound
    1969
  • Domingo no Parque

    music

    sound
    1968
  • Viramundo

    theme song performance

    sound
    1965

• production (1 credits)

  • Corações a Mil

    producer

    production
    1983