Music

Brazil’s Songs of Innocence and Experience

Sweet tooth, prepare for action. Without a lapse, Antologia da Canção Brasileira has a ...

Brazilian Music Gets Heard at Berlin’s Popkomm

The city of Rio de Janeiro, in Southeast Brazil, is amongst the representatives of ...

Brazilian Music as an Antidote to Bush’s Depression and 9/11

Even the most cursory listen to Tom Lellis will establish a few key identifying ...

Brazil’s Planetary Troubadour

Like the medieval troubadours, poet musicians who conveyed news in the form of song, ...

Jovino Santos: Brazilian Survival of the Hippest

Pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Jovino Santos Neto falls into that select group of musicians ...

Music: Brazil’s Latest Export Product

Brazil wants to show its beat. If this is the country of music, why ...

Forró, the Northeast’s Uncouth Sound That Won Brazil’s Southeast Elite

The rediscovery and conversion of Northeastern music to a commanding pop posture is one ...

Brazil’s Musical Jedi

There are few flautists who come close to matching Carlos Malta’s brilliance, his coloristic ...

Duduka Da Fonseca: Brazilian Beauty Re-dressed

Stylistically, Duduka Da Fonseca has always been his own man, an exceptionally versatile and ...

Carmen: The Unhappy Hollywood Life of Brazil’s Shiniest Star Ever

Carmen Miranda died 50 years ago at the age of 46. The most celebrated ...