Rio de Janeiro's iconic beaches are poised for a significant change. The familiar sounds of samba music, the readily ...

Set to come into force at the beginning of June, the new rules restrict live music, food and drink sales, chair rentals and ...

Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall is rolling out new rules to control beachside activities due to come into force on June 1. Food ...

The adjoining neighborhood, “Pequena Africa” or “Little Africa,” is a center of Black culture that developed into a hub for Afro-Brazilian resistance and gave birth to samba music and Carnival ...

The film’s smooth soundtrack feeds into foreigners’ imagination of Brazil as a country where samba and bossa nova ... now driven by agriculture. “Most music producers in Brazil used to ...

Every samba school must have a song that is repeatedly ... If Tijuca wins, Anitta will join a small group of top Brazilian music writers who have made it with the demanding fanatics of one of ...

The ocean breeze of Rio was a healing force that freed her from her debilitating asthma, and Brazilian music had a major impact ... On “Só Danço Samba (I Only Dance Samba),” Menescal ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS is the Brazilian samba song at the centre of the Adele plagiarism ... A preliminary injunction orders Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music to stop "immediately and globally, from ...

The lack of original holiday music sets Brazil apart from its Latin American ... which incorporates samba’s guitar and drum, create “too simple” of a sound for the holiday.