Gil, The Soul

Go beyond the musical icon and meet the man behind the stardom

In which city in Brazil was Gil born?
Salvador
He was born in Salvador, the capital of Bahia, but spent most of his childhood in Ituaçu

Environmental Activist

The singer had always been a strong voice for protection of ecosystems by bringing light to the urgency of ecological issues

Instituto Gilberto Gil

Brazil

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“I think I was heavily influenced by folks in Sao Paulo, like Augusto Campos, Décio Pignatari, and that whole new field of poetry that treated words in a process of ressignification, with semantic gathering, unfolding a new semantic. That was it: the molds for concrete poetry."A wonderful creation of terms and expressions

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