Brazil: Gilberto Gil Song Released Decades After Military Ban

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Brazil: Gilberto Gil Song Released Decades After Military Ban

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20 October 2016

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Because of the contrversial song, Gil was then forced to cancel his tour and withdraw the LP from sales.

A song interpreted by famous Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil was released Monday on YouTube, 41 years after it was banned by the country's military dictatorship.

Movie maker Jorge Alfredo Guimares, who wrote the lyrics, revealed the song “Rato Miudo,” or "Mouse Kid," was meant to be released in 1975 as part of the album “Refazenda.”

“Rato Miudo was censored because the chorus reproduced the words of my reserve soldier certificate of service, saying 'as judged inept, definitely, you are able to exercise civilian activities,'” Alfredo said in a sidenote released by Caderno de Cinema.

Because of the controversial song, which according to Alfredo may have pioneered Brazilian reggae, Gil was forced to cancel his tour and withdraw the LP from sales.

Soon after a coup against progressive President Joao Goulart, military officials Emilio Medici and Ernesto Geisel implemented a system of federal censorship meant to review all the albums produced during the dictatorship.

So far coup government of Michel Temer has not removed the track from YouTube.