The artist traveled with his family to Europe to record, sing and record the series ‘Viajando com os Gil’
Singer Black Gil48 years old, participated in the ‘Nós, A Gente’ tour with his family, to celebrate his father’s 80th birthday, gilbert Gil. During the travels, the artist already had some symptoms of bowel cancer, but no one knew about his health condition.
“We didn’t know that the black she was ill, even if she had been sick in two or three cities. She was very strong in masking that pain. She didn’t work [para nós]the pain of the disease only she felt,” said Flora Gil, at a press conference in Traveling with the Gilsheld last Thursday, 15th. ‘She just came to us and said, ‘I can’t do the show today because I’m weak, I have a headache, my intestines are sick’. She showed signs that she was not well, but neither she knew exactly what it was.”
the wife of Gilberto Gil he also went through bouts of declining health, but only at the end of the tour. According to her, an ambulance was needed to help her.
“After the last show, everyone left and I stayed in Toulouse. I felt weak, something that was not like me. They called a doctor and I ended up in hospital. They did a covid-19 test, but it was pneumonia. In the end I still had it. But everything worked out, I took a lot of medicines and then I went back to Brazil,” he recalled.
The journey is depicted in the series Traveling with the Gilspremieres June 30 on Prime Video. The production shows how the family made the tour planned in the first season a reality, the At home with the Gils.
Second Black Gilwho also attended the press conference, the series is more than a family tale across Europe, but a tribute to the clan’s idol and patriarch.
“Audiences will see the diversity that our family has, from being unique and having in us the essence of our patriarch, the love we have for art, the fact that we are a tribe and we care for each other more… complexity of what it means to tour Europe but beyond the difficulties you will see this love of art and music This tour was a tribute we did to our father while he was alive This series is a lesson in how to be one of the greatest artists in this country and they have spanned so many decades being so great,” he stressed.
Source: Terra
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