News Brazil Music: Vail Jazz Column: Brazilian music and jazz share DNA
Genetic ancestry testing is skyrocketing in popularity as more and more people get curious about their genealogy. Recently, there was a story in the news about Korean-American identical twin sisters ...
News Brazil Music: Alt.Latino Playlist: Cuban Funk, Mexican Blues, Brazilian Reggaeton
What they all have in common is a disregard for labels and classifications and even more so this week as we witness the influence of North American soul and funk in Cuba as well as refreshing mix ...
News Brazil Music: From Anitta to IZA, Why YouTube Is Brazil's Biggest Starmaker
And he’s hardly the only music executive capitalizing on the platform’s power in Brazil, where for many years it was the only one of its kind available to the masses. (Early incarnations of the iTunes ...
News Brazil Music: João Gilberto, a quiet and leading voice of Brazil’s bossa nova music, dies at 88
João Gilberto, a Brazilian guitarist and singer who helped define the subtle, swaying and quietly sensuous style of music known as bossa nova, which became a worldwide craze in the 1960s, died July 6 ...
News Brazil Music: When in Brazil, Just Follow the Music
Olodum is arguably the most famous of Salvador’s bloco-afros, samba-reggae ensembles that double as community organizations.CreditSebastian Modak/The New York Times For the first time in six months, I ...
News Brazil Music: Brazilian Artists Keep João Gilberto's Bossa Nova Legacy Alive In South Florida
The result was his 1959 album “Chega de Saudade,” considered a defining moment for Brazilian music. He continued his musical innovations with his recordings of “The Girl From Ipanema,” “Desafinado,” ...
News Brazil Music: Police break up party attended by Brazil internationals
“The music was really loud and it woke all the neighbours. An Uber arrived with prostitutes every five minutes. Thank God the police finally arrived. They’re our heroes.” Brazil player ...
News Brazil Music: From Brazil to Utah to Lincoln, guitarist Christopher Neale bringing Evening in Brazil to Jazz in June
Enter Linda Linford, a first-year student in the Utah State vocal music program, the daughter of a Latter-day Saints missionary and a Brazilian mother. Linford joined the trio and the group became ...
News Brazil Music: Utah Symphony conductor Thierry Fischer’s next job will be in São Paulo, Brazil
Thierry Fischer, conductor and music director of the Utah Symphony, will become the new principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
News Brazil Music: A Brazilian journalist's poignant reflection on covering UFC 237
In fact, those who know me often joke about how un-Brazilian I am. I consume U.S. culture. I write for a U.S.-based website. I consume mostly music in English. I sure didn’t get this unhealthy ...
News Brazil Music: Meet the Brazilian Musicians Leading Bahia’s Afrofuturism Movement
The band was born in 2009 and has become one of the main exponents of Brazilian music in the past few years. Layering Jamaican music into patterns and textures sourced from the black diaspora ...
News Brazil Music: Watch Foals Party To the End of the World in ‘In Degrees’ Music Video
Foals have released a music video for single “In Degrees ... which was directed by Aaron Brown and shot in Brazil. The video, which flips between the band performing in empty ruins and performing in a ...
News Brazil Music: Brazilian Pop Artist Sessa Announces Debut Album and North American Tour
Boiled Records announces Grandeza, the stunning debut solo album from São Paulo musician Sessa, a long-time fixture of the American and Brazilian music scenes known for his collaborations with Yonatan ...
News Brazil Music: Why Brazil's Music Industry Is Booming Again
After a decade of plummeting sales and surging piracy, the music industry in the country where bossa nova and Tropicália were born is roaring back to life. Fueled by the streaming revolution, Brazil ...
News Brazil Music: Beth Carvalho, Brazil’s ‘godmother of samba,’ dies at 72
Beth Carvalho, an exuberant, smokey-voiced Brazilian singer who filled soccer stadiums with her followers, battled music-industry machismo, and championed overlooked composers and performers — earning ...
