Quanta Live has received critical acclaim, and won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. It's jazz and samba and reggae and salsa.
Talking about the album in an interview with The Austin Chronicle, Gil said "What I really like to do is pick up the guitar and play, to write a song and sing it, to incorporate elements from all kinds of music. Two are covers of popular Bob Marley songs, " Is This Love" and " Stir It Up", one was written by Gordurinha, one by Alberto Ribeiro, and another co-written by Gil, João Barone, Bi Ribeiro, and Herbert Vianna. Most of the songs Gil plays with his seven-person supporting band were written by Gil. Stylistically, Gil's well known association with the tropicalia genre is evident on the album, and its musical content has also been described as including samba, funk, bossa nova, reggae, jazz, salsa, and pop songs and styles. Quanta Live is the name of the international release. It is connected in name and content to his 1997 studio-recorded album Quanta, which included a variety of tracks from different points in his career. Quanta gente veio ver: Ao Vivo was recorded at the Teatro João Caetano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during his 1997 world tour. The album's tracks span a number of musical styles, including tropicalia, a genre with which Gil is closely associated, as well as samba, funk, bossa nova, reggae, jazz, salsa, and pop. At the 41st Annual Grammy Awards, it won the award for Best World Album. Quanta gente veio ver: Ao Vivo (English: How many people came to see: Live), known internationally as Quanta Live, is a Grammy-winning 1998 album by Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil recorded live with a seven-piece band at the Teatro João Caetano in Rio de Janeiro during his 1997 world tour. Tropicalia, samba, funk, bossa nova, reggae, jazz, salsa, pop
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