Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

The face of the Brazilian president is omnipresent as a samba school rehearses its Carnival parade in front of thousands of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anitta has become a pop music sensation in her native Brazil and abroad, but Monday she will have her first shot to prove herself on the country's biggest stage: the Sambadrome.

Os Novos Baianos brought their samba rock to American soil for the first time to the joy of the thousands of Brazilian and Brazilian-American fans who’ve made a life here. But they didn’t just draw a ...

At the heart of the samba, Brazil’s quintessential song format, lies a paradox as intriguing as it is illuminating: no matter how joyous a samba may be, it will invariably carry a feeling of sadness ...

Academicos de Niteroi will be the first to parade down Rio de Janeiro's Sambodrome avenue on February 15, at the start of the ...

Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when ...

Maybe it's the warm weather. Maybe it's the world-famous beaches with mountains on the horizon in both cities. Well, whatever the reason, musician Roge says nothing makes him feel more like a native ...

This year, the 31-year-old took on the new challenge of joining some of Brazil's most traditional samba artists as a songwriter for a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro. Anitta is a songwriter for the ...

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