Culture

RAPIDINHAS January 2002 – Cássia Eller

RAPIDINHAS Music Rock Silenced As 2001 approached its conclusion, Brazilian music faced another untimely ...

Brazzil Magazine covers

Amateur Lover – Short Story

He always used to bring a rose stolen from his mother’s vase, from the ...

Brazzil Magazine covers

Best-seller Books, Plays and Movies – January2002

By Brazzil Magazine Dois Perdidos Numa Noite Suja (Two Lost Souls on a Dirty ...

Candid Portrait

The editors of The Brazil Reader have chosen well. Articles, which may at first ...

Brazzil Magazine covers

Bang-Bang Book

Patrícia Melo has a stripped-down, straightforward style, and she pumps out words the way ...

Rita Peixoto and Carlos Fuchs CD

Independent in Rio – Part II

More and more artists are taking control of their own recordings. Rita Peixoto and ...

Chico Lives

  For long considered a patrimony of Brazilian music, Francisco Buarque de Hollanda, better ...

Dil Fonseca CD

Independent in Rio

When record companies view good music as a liability, artists have no choice but ...

Magic Marcos

Marcos Sacramento is creating new samba hybrids. Marcos Sacramento is breathing new life into ...

Plain João – The Man Who Invented Bossa Nova

He’s been called O Rei da Bossa, O Mito, Il Maestro Supremo, and O ...