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  "slug": "gilberto-gil",
  "name": "Gilberto Gil",
  "description": "Gilberto Gil appears 3 times in our Tropicália and Dancing to Bad News lists, placing as high as No. 3. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/gilberto-gil/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 2,
  "years": {
    "first": 1967,
    "last": 1968
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 3,
    "list": "Tropicália"
  },
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      "slug": "tropicalia",
      "name": "Tropicália",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tropicalia/",
      "entries": 2
    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "dancing-to-bad-news",
      "name": "Dancing to Bad News",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/",
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    }
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    {
      "trackKey": "gilberto-gil--domingo-no-parque",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/gilberto-gil--domingo-no-parque/",
      "title": "Domingo no Parque",
      "year": 1967,
      "label": "Philips",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A murder ballad set at a funfair, arranged by Rogério Duprat with capoeira berimbau and an orchestra. The most formally ambitious three minutes in Brazilian pop.",
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        }
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          "exact": false
        },
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          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OztuGomczAo",
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        }
      },
      "rank": 3,
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        "slug": "tropicalia",
        "name": "Tropicália",
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      },
      "artist": "Gilberto Gil"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "gilberto-gil--bat-macumba",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/gilberto-gil--bat-macumba/",
      "title": "Bat Macumba",
      "year": 1968,
      "label": "Philips",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A lyric that is a concrete poem — the words shed a letter per line until nothing is left. Playful, and a direct product of the São Paulo avant-garde.",
      "alsoOn": [],
      "links": {
        "spotify": {
          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Gilberto%20Gil%20Bat%20Macumba",
          "exact": false
        },
        "youtubeMusic": {
          "url": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqKBCJL4GNo",
          "exact": true
        }
      },
      "rank": 7,
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        "kind": "genre",
        "slug": "tropicalia",
        "name": "Tropicália",
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      },
      "artist": "Gilberto Gil"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "gilberto-gil--domingo-no-parque",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/gilberto-gil--domingo-no-parque/",
      "title": "Domingo no Parque",
      "year": 1967,
      "label": "Philips",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A funfair, a berimbau, an orchestra, and a man killing his friend and the woman between them. Gil sets a murder ballad to the most inviting three minutes in Brazilian pop, and Duprat's arrangement never once lets on.",
      "alsoOn": [
        {
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          "slug": "tropicalia",
          "name": "Tropicália",
          "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/tropicalia/"
        }
      ],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Gilberto%20Gil%20Domingo%20no%20Parque",
          "exact": false
        },
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        }
      },
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      },
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  ],
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}