and the Carioca neighbourhoods became cultural melting pots where Afro-Brazilian music came to life. Samba, the main musical ...

“This was the first time in the history of samba – and, perhaps, even in the history of Brazilian popular music – when an explicit call to action, directed exclusively at Negroes, had been included in ...

With a Brazilian mother passionate about music and a Norwegian father devoted to skiing, he grew up surrounded by samba’s warmth and the crisp chill of snow-covered slopes. At nine, he fell in ...

THIS is the Brazilian samba song at the centre of the Adele plagiarism row that could see her 2015 hit banned across the globe. The song Mulheres (Women), was recorded by Brazilian singer Martinho ...

The Brazilian samba composer who has sued Adele over the ... Kurstin and the Brazilian subsidiaries of Sony and Universal Music, to court in Rio De Janeiro. At the hearing on December 13, a ...

Rio de Janeiro's top 13 samba schools are gearing up for carnival and the parade at Rio's Sambadrome where they will compete on 11 and 12 February to be crowned carnival champions. Ninety-thousand ...

Sambaganza invites everyone to join in the lively percussion rhythms of Brazilian Carnival. If you love samba, drumming, ...