Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

At the heart of the samba, Brazil’s quintessential song format, lies a paradox as intriguing as it is illuminating: no matter how joyous a samba may be, it will invariably carry a feeling of sadness ...

The definition of bloco de carnaval in a dictionary will likely turn up “street bands” or “a group of musicians and dancers who perform during the Brazilian Carnival, typically parading through the ...

BETH CARVALHO: (Singing in non-English language). PARKS: ...Your mind might jump to Brazil. Today, samba is woven into the country's cultural identity. For the past three decades, Rio de Janeiro has ...

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...

Step up to a traditional samba circle in Brazil and you’ll find this: a group of 5 to 15 men, each playing an instrument — a tambourine, a cavaquinho, a drum. Then you’ll typically see women, not ...