Gilberto Gil – Refavela 40

Gil started to play music as a child and was a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician and grew to write songs that reflected a focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música popular brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and

Gilberto Gil (vocals and guitar)
Mayra Andrade (vocals)
Chiara Civello (vocal and keyboards )
Mestrinho (vocals and accordion). 

Bem Gil (vocals and guitar)
Domenico Lancellotti (drums, percussion and MPC)
Bruno di Lullo (bass)
Thomas Harres (drums and percussion)
Thiagô Queiroz (sax and flute)
Mateus Aleluia Filho (trumpet and flugelhorn)
Nara Gil and Ana Lomelino as back-up vocals