Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Gil (born 1942 in Salvador, Bahia) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He met Caetano Veloso at the Federal University of Bahia in 1963, and the two led the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. The military government arrested them in 1968 and sent them into exile in London. Gil returned to Bahia in 1972 and went on to a long career in Brazilian popular music. His first albums include Louvação (1967) and Gilberto Gil (1968), recorded with Os Mutantes, and he took part in the collective manifesto album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses (1968).