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Preta Maria Gadelha Gil Moreira () (born 8 August 1974), known as Preta Gil (), is a Brazilian singer and actress. She is the daughter of
Gilberto Gil Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (; born 26 June 1942), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration ...
, a musician and former Minister of
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in Brazil.


Biography

In 1974, Gil's father, singer
Gilberto Gil Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (; born 26 June 1942), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation and political activism. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration ...
, went to a government office to register his daughter's name after his own mother's name. On arrival, the clerk informed him he was unable to register Preta as a name for his daughter. Gilberto Gil began to protest, "Why not? There's Branca (white), Clara (clear) and Rosa (rose) . . . why can't Preta (black) be a name?" The clerk would only agree if the name Preta accompanied a Catholic name. Thus, Gilberto Gil had to register his daughter under the name Preta Maria. While Gil initially lived in
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, she moved to Salvador at the age of one. Soon after, her mother, Sandra, had another daughter named Maria. Gil always believed that the decision to use the name Maria was the result of a lack of creativity. Gil also had an older brother, Pedro, who was born in London during her father's exile from Brazil. Gilberto Gil had left Brazil along with his friend, fellow singer
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, because a military dictatorship was in power. Sandra's mother was also the mother of Andréa Gadelha who is best known as Dedé, the wife of Caetano Veloso. Sandra's mother believed that her two daughters married crazy men. Both Gilberto Gil and Veloso were exiled and went to live in London, leaving Preta's grandmother to raise the children. She has great admiration for her grandmother, who stood firm at a chaotic time in her family's life. Since childhood, Gil has had a very vivid imagination. She had an imaginary puppy when she was five. When her father made a record in Los Angeles with
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, the family moved to California, where they lived for eight months. Gil's mother joked that the airplane that took them to
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was a slave ship since she and her children were black. Gil's siblings, Maria and Pedro, both had curly hair, and Gil has straight hair—Veloso used to call her Filipina. Gil was in Rio de Janeiro at the height of the 1980s when Bombando,
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, Paralamas, Barão Vermelho, and
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were popular. The Brazilian music scene in the 1980s was very striking. As a daughter of one of Brazil's music icons, Gil had backstage access to the craziness of that music scene. Gil said of these experiences: "It all made me crazy, loved this environment, I felt comfortable. The stage was one thing that attracted me a lot." She wanted to be the character, "Chacrete," in the TV show ''Chacrinha''. She spent every Saturday in the Fenix theater or the Botanical Garden. Gil's father, her uncle Veloso, and her godmother
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all ranked on music charts around this time. All three would go to tapings of the show ''Chacrinha''. Gil would always beg her mother to ask her father, her uncle, and even her godmother to let her attend a taping of the show. One day, she was permitted to attend. When she went into her uncle Caetano's dressing room and saw all of the costumes and instruments, she thought that he was the male version of
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. When the taping began, she watched the "magic" happen from a corner. She loved Elke Maravilha who was a constant fixture on the show. That was the environment of the 1980s: effervescent, colorful, and full of life. This was the moment when she decided to become a singer and an actress. She would imitate her godmother, Gal Costa, and other reputable and talented singers and actresses that she loved like
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and
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. In March 2020, she contracted
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. In July 2020, she declared herself as
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. In addition to being the daughter of
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, she is the
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of the singer and musician
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(son of
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with his first wife, Andrea Gadelha) and the
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singer
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.


Career


2003–2004: The First CD "Prêt-à-Porter"

The first studio album, entitled "Prêt-à Porter" was released in 2003. Gil took nude pictures for the cover and the booklet of the CD. The idea was for the singer, in particular, to feel reborn. Once Gil finished photographing the pictures, she showed them to the label. But the record label was alerted and asked if she was sure that she wanted to use them because it might cause a 'scandal'. Innocently, Gil said that since she had to include other singers on the disc, singers who were also naked on the covers of their CDs, would help to make here less controversial. In a TV interview for GNT, the program Annoying "Fernanda Young", Gil said, she liked to be fun and relaxed which, with all certainty wouldn't have been a problem if she were thin.


2005–2010: Second CD "Preta", "Noite Preta" tour and first live DVD

Gil's second studio album, entitled ''Preta'', was released in September 2005. The CD contained two songs, "Very Dangerous" and "You and Mene, You and Me", both released in 2005. In 2008, Gil debuted her new tour, called "Noite Preta", where on 20 October 2009, recorded her first live DVD/
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, scheduled for release on 17 July 2010. "I'm thinking about launching an extra DVD with only the prohibited. In my day today, I'm very different from the "Preta Gil character, "one that people know the stage. Say the Preta woman from the stage is a more liberal without locks on the tongue, foul mouth like that," Gil told the ''EGO''. Waiting for the
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through the pre-release first live DVD/Blu-ray of ''Preta Gil'' was on 17 July 2010, in "Scala Rio," with a big party. With the packed house at "The Week Rio", and an audience of about three thousand people, Gil celebrated the anniversary of her show and pre-release of his DVD/
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which hits stores in August: "It's eight-year career and three of them working on this show. Today I am an artist mature and aware enough of my segment. I have a wonderful staff and very nice experience every minute with this whole situation," Gil told the ''EGO'' during a conversation in the dressing room.


2013–present: 10 years anniversary and 2nd live DVD/Blu-ray

Gil celebrated 10 years of her career with burning the DVD/
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, '' Bloco da Preta'', which took place on the evening of Wednesday, 23 October 2013, at "Citibank Hall" in
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. With a mix of Brazilian rhythms ranging from pop to swing, passing through funk, axé, pagode, and samba, the show had the participation of Lulu,
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,
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, Israel and Thiago Novaes and had three hours of duração. Some songs had to be repeated due to the raspy voice of singer and errors in some letters. Master Pablo in front of the battery "Black Power" with 10 drummers and dancers on stage gave a special glow to the show. "Every singer dreams about it, with this mega-production. I am very happy," said Gil, who despite having taken a physical therapist did not care about the knee problem, jumped in high heels and used during the presentation said "Only now can." During Carnival 2014,
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n singer,
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sang alongside Gil along with
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, integrating programming of "Varanda Elétrica" the cabin "Expresso 2222". For Carnival 2014, Gil performed 19 shows over 15 days. Your street block in the Marvelous City, the "Bloco da Preta" (Preta's Block), is the third-largest in the
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and has already reached concentrate to 2.5 million people in the streets. To account for so much work, the singer is staffed by a team of diverse professionals. "Before he was afraid of the wardrobe, shoe, every detail. It caused me to pain Everything. Had remedy, analgesic and ice packs waiting for me at the exit of each show. Had two knee injuries in 2010 and 2012 carnivals. Today learned to delegate responsibility and caring for me. I osteopath, physiotherapist, Rodrigo (groom) as personal, speech therapist. useless But not so many people taking care of me if I did not care for it myself", she says, who claims not to leave more heavy routine to interfere with your health.


Discography


Studio albums


Live albums


Video albums


Singles


Featuring


Tours

* 2008–2011: '' Noite Preta'' * 2012–present: ''Baile da Preta''


Block carnival

* 2009–present: ''Bloco da Preta''


TV work

;Presenter and cast * 2010: ''Vai e Vem'' - (GNT) * 2005: ''Caixa Preta'' - (Band) * 2012: ''
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'' * 2012–present: '' Esquenta!'' * 2013: ''
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'' ;Online radio * 2010: ''Noite Preta FM'' ;Actress * 2010: ''
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'' * 2010: ''
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'' * 2009: '' Caminho das Índias'' * 2008: '' Ó Paí, Ó'' * 2008: '' Os Mutantes – Caminhos do Coração'' * 2007: '' Caminhos do Coração'' * 2003: '' Agora É que São Elas'' ;Film * 2006: ''
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'' – Stella (Brazilian voice)


Notes


References


External links


Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gil, Preta 1974 births Living people Brazilian people of indigenous peoples descent Brazilian women singers Afro-Brazilian women singers Afro-Brazilian actresses Brazilian telenovela actresses Brazilian television presenters 21st-century Brazilian women singers 21st-century Brazilian singers Afro-Brazilian television hosts Brazilian women television presenters Pansexual women Pansexual musicians 21st-century Brazilian LGBT people Brazilian LGBT singers Brazilian LGBT songwriters Brazilian LGBT actresses Brazilian LGBT broadcasters Women in Latin music