Gilberto Gil at Azad Maidan, 2004

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:53:32 +0000

Gilberto Gil greeted the news that he’d been appointed Brazil’s country’s culture minister in 2003 with a line that could have come from one of his densely allusive songs. The superstar told one interviewer: “I've gone from being the stone thrower to [being] the glass.”