Music

Cover Story – A talkative Roberto Carlos

As predictable and as traditional as New Year’s celebrations on Rio’s beaches, just-released Roberto ...

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Bruce Gilman

Carioca Fernanda has won Brazil

After being the disco queen for a generation of teens in the 80’s Fernanda ...

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Alessandra Dalevi

A tribute to Tom Jobim

I walked down 56th Street and turned left. Carnegie Hall was majestic with flags ...

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Sérgio Mielniczenko

If It Is Brazil, It Has to Be Music

It is still time to remember both the first centenary of Ary Barroso’s birth ...

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Dário Borim

40 Years Off Key

That’s Bossa Nova It’s Quite Natural How did bossa nova start? It would be ...

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Kirsten Weinoldt

Cae & Gil 120 Years of Sound

The partnership between Caetano and Gil is one of the most fertile and lasting ...

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Kirsten Weinoldt

Daúde She Must Be Good

It was a magic night at Canecão in Rio. In the audience the likes ...

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Kirsten Weinoldt

Kiss of the Spider Monkey

By Brazzil Magazine In Brazil everything ‘dances’—the palm trees, the ocean, the verdant mountains. ...

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Bondo Wyszpolski

Reggae from the Badlands

Brazilian pop has traditionally been a product of mauricinhos, young people from upper-middle class ...

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Bruce Gilman

Perchance to Dream

January 2002 Music Perchance to Dream What to be, or not to be, will ...

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Bruce Gilman