The six top-scoring samba schools from Rio’s Carnival returned to the Sambadrome for one final parade, showcasing their elaborate costumes and live samba music. (AP Video by Lucas Dumphreys) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the new Rota do Samba, musicians tell stories through song. Photograph by Dan Stables This article was produced by National ...

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Santa Cruzan Samba Ngo, an African-born musician who rose to fame performing in France during the 1960s and ”70s, became interested in music because of the way his father used sound as medicine in ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) – The World Cup is over but the Brazilian party will go on—in New York City. Over nine days beginning July 18, nearly 20 acts representing a cross section of Brazilian popular music will ...

The banner on the back wall of the old dance hall says in Portuguese: “While there is dance, we still have hope.” There’s plenty of that as the crowd of Cariocas (Rio locals) shake hips and move their ...

Since the pandemic, amateur musicians have flocked to the Brazilian percussion ensemble Miamibloco and built a community around samba in the process. After months of pandemic isolation, a lot of ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the cool beat of bossa nova. What could that possibly have to do with the D.C. area? Well, it turns out that the album “Jazz Samba,” which introduced to the world ...