Preta Gil
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Preta Gil (ˈpretɐ ˈʒiw, born August 8, 1974) is a Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian singer and actress. She is the daughter of Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

, a famous musician and former Minister of Culture
Ministry of Culture (Brazil)
The Ministry of Culture of Brazil was created in 1985.-External links:*...

 in Brazil.

Biography

In 1974, the father of Preta Gil, the famous singer Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

, went to a government office to register his daughter's name after the name of the baby's paternal grandmother. Upon arriving there, the clerk apparently told him, "You will not be able to register "Preta" as the name of your daughter. Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

 began to protest and said, "But why not? There's Bianca (White), Blanca (White), Clara (Clear) and Rosa (Rose) . . . why can't Preta (Black) be a name?". Conceding, the clerk said, "Okay, I'll let you register "Preta" as the child's name, but you can only do so if you register it together with a Catholic name". So today, the actress is called "Preta Maria" on account of the clerk, and she thinks own body all good.

Preta lived in Rio
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 until she was a year old, and then she went to Salvador
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...

. Her mother soon after had another daughter named "Maria". Preta says she found little creative to tell the truth. She had an older brother, "Pedro", who was born in London
London
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, at the time of exile. Her father, Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

, was exiled along with Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

 during the time of the Brazilian dictatorship. Accordingly, there was much chaos in the family.

The grandmother, a mother of "Sandra", Black's mother, and mother of Dede, wife of Caetano
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

. So this time they were exiled, she had two daughters married two "crazy". The two were exiled, went to live in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, and Preta's grandmother, who feels a great admiration by his grandmother about it, because she always took the bar.

Since childhood she has had a very fertile imagination. She once had an imaginary puppy, when she was five. When her father was making a record in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 with Sergio Mendes
Sergio Mendes
Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....

, the family moved to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 where they lived for eight months. Preta's mother speaks: "Here comes the slave ship!", as she and the children were all black. She says that people on the street would ask if she was with the children of the maids. Apparently, this is because Preta's sister, "Maria", has curly hair, her brother "Peter" also has curly hair. Preta has straight hair. Preta says: "I was in India, so much so that I nicknamed my child 'Filipina'." Caetano
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...

 called her Filipina.

She was in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

 at the height of the '80s. Bombando, Blitz
Blitz (Brazilian band)
Blitz is a Brazilian rock band. The band was the first to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles kick-starting the 1980s movement that would later be called "BRock"...

, Paralamas
Paralamas do Sucesso
Os Paralamas do Sucesso is a Brazilian rock band, formed in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s. Its members since 1982 are Herbert Vianna , Bi Ribeiro , and João Barone . In its beginning, the band combined reggae and ska with rock, but later added horn arrangements and Latin rhythms...

, Red Baron, Lulu Santos
Lulu Santos
Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos is a Brazilian singer and guitarist, considered one of the great names of Brazilian rock.- Career :...

. Had so many good things happened. This music thing in the '80s was something very striking. He had the Flying Circus, who had a show every weekend, that I, as a good daughter of artist, lived behind the scenes, backstage, saw everything happen.

"It all made me crazy, loved this environment, I felt comfortable. Palco was one thing that attracted me a lot." reveals the singer. "Every time I went to show my father when he came in the encore, I knew he had done his part, he never called me, but my brother and I climbed there." continues the singer. "He came back for percussion and I went to the side of my sister Nara, who was backing vocal of my father, and I was singing." Preta finishes.

She wanted to be "Chacrete" (the famous TV show of Chacrinha) and every Saturday in the theater was recording Fenix, the Botanical Garden. Preta's father, at that time, was blew up the charts, along with her uncle Caetano Veloso, a godmother Gal Costa, one of the family always went to Chacrinha. And Preta would say, 'Mother, tell uncle to let me go, tell Dad, let me go. "She finally got her way and went to Chacrinha".

Preta remembers that she went into Uncle Caetano's dressing room, a dressing room full of stuff and balagandans, and thought he was a 'Carmen Miranda man'. She sat on his lap, kissed him, he loved her. That program began, the lights, the audience, and she was in a corner and then entering all the bands at that time she loved. Loved "Elke Maravilha", who was sworn. It was created in this environment of 80 years, very effervescent, colorful citrus, lots of pants semi-bag.

And there, still in the '80s, she decided she would be an actress, and would study it would be an actress and singer. She thought she could be both, but what she wanted more was to be an actress. And she says she already was. She had the maiozinho of leopard, as did numbers for their brothers, they hated. They spoke, "Oh, that girl is very metida!".

And she was showboating to Gal Costa
Gal Costa
Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...

, who is godmother to Preta. She imitated her, for her. When her wounds at the house of Preta, she would put "oh, shake ...". She took the boa Preta, took her clothes. Imitated Rita Lee
Rita Lee
Rita Lee Jones Carvalho , simply known as Rita Lee, is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian...

, Elba
Elba ramalho
Elba Ramalho, is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called "The Queen of Forró"....

, Elba
Elba ramalho
Elba Ramalho, is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called "The Queen of Forró"....

 loved, went to all her concerts.

Blackberry, daughter of Jorge Mautner, is Preta's best friend. One day, when they were children, Amora arrived at the home of a friend with amazing doll that traveled Mautner and brought to her. And Preta had a doll like.

It was bad, miserable, envious ugly child. Preta wanted because I wanted this doll too, but proud, said nothing. A friend of Preta, Blackberry, was walking with this doll and Preta with 'hate' her. An hour she turned to Preta and said, "I have this doll and you don't!", And Preta said, "Oh yeah, well my father speaks to God and yours doesn't!". At the height of his songs, Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

 (Preta's father) would sometimes "talk to God", and Preta Gil really thought he was talking with the Lord.

2003-2004: The First CD -Prêt-à-Porter- and Controversy 'Naked' and Raw

The first studio album Preta Gil, entitled "Prêt-à Porter" was released in 2003. Preta took nude pictures for the cover and the booklet of the CD. The idea was for the singer, in particular, to feel reborn with that her first job, and how we are born naked, then declined as well.

When you finish the pictures, showed them the label. But soon it was alerted and asked if she was sure that, if you thought it would not cause any 'scandal'. Innocently, Preta said that since she had to include other singers on the disc, singers who were also naked on the covers of their CDs, and would not be a 'chest out' that would cause a controversy.

From there, the same time, Preta did an interview for Trippe. But like all media thought that Preta was in the clearance of wanting to spur, called her to make a sensual. Preta, very relaxed, loved it, because it has always been a dream of mine to do Playboy.

But Preta reveals that when she read the magazine of her interview, it was not exactly what she had said, because they had many questions to which her answers would be misunderstood and made her look bad. The interview came out in magazine with the release of her controversial CD, so it would have been another reason for the media to think that she was willing to appear.

In a TV interview just, GNT, the program Annoying "Fernanda Young", Preta Gil says, like fun and relaxed for the presenter, that if she were thin, with all certainty that fuss would not have happened.

2005-2010: The Second CD -Preta- The Tour -Noite Preta- and First Live DVD/Blu-ray/CD

The second studio album Preta Gil, titled "Preta" was released in September
September
September is the 9th month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with a length of 30 days.September in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Northern Hemisphere....

 2005. The CD contained two songs of work, Very Dangerous and You and Me, You and Me, both released in 2005.

In 2008, Preta debuted her new tour, called "Noite Preta", where on October 20, 2009 recorded his first live DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

/Blu-ray, scheduled for release on July 17, 2010.

"I'm thinking about launching an extra DVD with only the prohibited. In my day to day, 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", Preta told the "EGO".

Waiting for the 2010 FIFA World Cup
2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...

 through the pre-release first live DVD/Blu-ray of Preta Gil was on July 17, 2010, in "Scala Rio," with a big party.

With the packed house at "The Week Rio", and an audience of about three thousand people, Black celebrated the anniversary of her show and pre-release of his DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

/Blu-ray 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. Black told the "EGO" during a conversation in the dressing room.

2011-2012: Preparations for the Third CD

After the success of DVD/Blu-ray/CD Black "Noite Preta", ahead of the talk show about sex, "Come and Go", the cable channel GNT
GNT
This article is about a Brazilian TV channel. For other uses, see Gnt .GNT is a Brazilian cable/satellite television channel. Originally launched as GNT: Globosat News Television, a news and information network. With the launch of Globo News, in 1996, the GNT acronym became meaningless, and the...

, Black is already programmed to record the next album: "In July 2011 I go into the studio. I'm really excited, full of ideas!" With a repertoire consisting of songs from pop and MPB, as well as their original songs, the "Noite Preta" soon became a mania in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, where the show was born: "In the beginning was me, four musicians, a roadie and Ju (Juliana Martins press secretary and right-hand Black). Today our team is 14 people and I am very proud to say that "Noite" (Night) is the livelihood of all".

Studio Albums

  • 2003: Prêt-à Porter
  • 2005: Preta
  • 2011: TBA

Singles

  • 2003: Sinais De Fogo
  • 2003: Andaraí
  • 2005: Muito Perigoso
  • 2005: Eu e Você, Você e Eu
  • 2007: Mutante
  • 2009: Stereo
  • 2010: Meu Valor
  • 2011: Carinho de Verdade
  • 2011: TBA

TV Works

Presenter
  • 2010: Vai e Vem - (GNT)
  • 2005: Caixa Preta - (Band)


Online Radio
  • 2010: Noite Preta FM - (http://www.mpbbrasil.com/noitepretafm/)


Actress
  • 2010: As Cariocas
  • 2010: Ti Ti Ti
    Ti Ti Ti (2010)
    Ti Ti Ti is a Brazilian telenovela that originally aired on Rede Globo from July 19, 2010 to March 17, 2011. Based on the 1985 telenovela Ti Ti Ti, written by Cassiano Gabus Mendes, the remake is created and written by Maria Adelaide Amaral...

  • 2009: Caminho das Índias
    Caminho das Índias
    Caminho das Índias is a Brazilian Emmy-winning television telenovela produced by Rede Globo and first broadcast from January 19 to September 11, 2009. It ranked within the top of the most watched shows on Brazilian television...

  • 2008: Ó Paí, Ó
    Ó Paí, Ó
    Ó Paí, Ó is a 2007 Brazilian drama film directed by Monique Gardenberg. It tells the story of cortiço residents in Pelourinho, the historical center of Salvador, on the last day of carnaval. Lacking money but not desire for amusement, they get by on creativity, irony, sensuality, and music.The...

  • 2008: Os Mutantes - Caminhos do Coração
  • 2007: Caminhos do Coração
    Caminhos do Coração
    Caminhos do Coração is a Brazilian telenovela aired on Rede Record. Created by Tiago Santiago and directed by Alexandre Avancini, it was replaced by a spin-off called Os Mutantes: Caminhos do Coração, airing since June 3, 2008.-Plot:...

  • 2003: Agora É que São Elas

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