If you have been to Rio de Janeiro’ beaches, this probably sounds familiar: samba music drifting from a nearby kiosk, ...

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 ...

Nothing beats the energy you'll find at beaches in Brazil. As you relax on the sand ... while soccer balls fly in the air and music seems to come from every direction. There are many beaches ...

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 ...

Walesh got turned onto Brazilian music playing samba percussion with Bloco do Sol San José on Mexican Heritage Plaza. She fell in love with the powerful Afro-Brazilian rhythms, but ravishing ...

Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival celebrations began earlier this month in Brazil. As part of the event ... About 100 dogs happily wagged their tails to samba music while socialising at the Blocao ...

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 ...