So that morning in Mr Oliveira's office, he evidently found a cockroach waiting inside the top drawer of his desk. Something about this vision of vermin clicked inside the company man, and he decided ...

It was way back in the early ‘60s when bossa nova was on its way to becoming the hot Latin dance step of the moment. Kids of the time might balk at doing the cha cha or getting into a conga line but ...

At 81, Gil says goodbye to the city that was once his home in political exile, playing a set that hops deftly between bossa nova, tropicália, reggae and funk Political prisoner, exiled psych-rock idol ...