Artist
Gilberto Gil
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.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Tropicália and Dancing to Bad News
- Years
- 1967–1968
- Highest placing
- No. 3 in Tropicália
- Updated
- 2026-08-31
Appears on
Domingo no Parque
1967 · Philips
Ranked No. 3 in Tropicália
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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Bat Macumba
1968 · Philips
Ranked No. 7 in Tropicália
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.
Domingo no Parque
1967 · Philips
Picked by Dancing to Bad News
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.
Also on Tropicália