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After his return to Brazil in 1972, Gil’s musical career blossomed through the ensuing decades—with scores of CDs and hit singles, Gil is today one of the pop icons of Brazilian culture, and was rewarded most recently as the 2003 Personality of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony...
...when Gilberto Gil visited Harvard’s Sanders Theater last week to give a lecture on “Brazilian Cultural Policies and Social Inclusion,” the audience could hardly guess that the ridiculously cool individual standing in front of them was 62 years old. Kicking off the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ “Brazil Semester,” Gil energetically stood in a sharp suit, his shoulder-length dreadlocks tied back in a ponytail...
...BRAZILIAN BOB DYLAN
...late 1960s, Gil became one of the founders of Tropicalism, the Brazilian equivalent of the hippie movement, a role that has earned him the title of “the Brazilian Bob Dylan.” Like its American counterpart, the Tropicalist movement was set in the midst of a tumultuous time in Brazilian history—the height of the power of the military dictatorship...
This spirit, however, came at a price. In December 1968, the military dictatorship passed a law which curtailed freedom of speech and artistic liberty. Shortly thereafter, Gil and Caetano Veloso, another Tropicalist founder, were imprisoned under the pretext that the two had disrespected the national hymn and the Brazilian flag. Their heads were shaved, and they were held in custody for several months. In July of 1969, they were exiled to London...