- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGilbert Levey
- Nicknames
- Baba Mangalanand
- Mahant Mangalanand Puri
- Goa Gil was born on October 11, 1951 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was married to Ariane. He died on October 26, 2023 in California, USA.
- SpouseAriane(? - October 26, 2023) (his death)
- During the early 1980s, many Goa hippies were becoming increasingly fascinated with early electronic music such as Kraftwerk. Gil and his friends soon gathered some equipment and started DJing and playing live music all night long on the Goa beaches.
- In January 2006, Gil DJ'ed the all-night closing party of the three-day LSD-symposium at Basel, Switzerland, in honor of LSD-inventor Albert Hofmann's 100-years birthday January 11, 2006, after Hofmann himself had delivered the closing speech of the symposium.
- Goa Gil was married to Ariane. Together they formed the band "the Nommos".
- Feeling that the San Francisco musical scene was falling apart, he took off in 1969, going first to Amsterdam and then to India, settling in Goa. Here he discovered the sadhus, wandering holy men living off the forest, covering themselves with ash. Soon, Gil himself became a Sadhu, Baba Mangalanand, in the order of the Juna Akhara, under the Guru, Mahant Nirmalanand Saraswati.
- Gil was interviewed for the 2001 documentary Last Hippie Standing which explored the scene in Goa.
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