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Music: Global Gilberto Gil

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Though Gilberto Gil now splits his time between music and a day job as Brazil's Minister of Culture, he wasn't always on such cozy terms with his home country. In 1969, Brazil's military regime imprisoned Gil and fellow tropicália innovator Caetano Veloso, releasing them only on the condition that they went into exile. Gil has released upward of 40 albums since he returned to Bahia in 1972 and become an iconic musical freedom fighter in the process. And while the singer, now 65, still peppers his bossa-nova chords with bits of punk, reggae, and blues, his smoothed baritone remains the main attraction.

– Max Goldberg

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