It's been over 40 years since the Cavalera brothers, Max and Iggor, joined forces to form Sepultura in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although both brothers have been out of the band for decades by this ...

Maybe it's the warm weather. Maybe it's the world-famous beaches with mountains on the horizon in both cities. Well, whatever the reason, musician Roge says nothing makes him feel more like a native ...

Stan Getz's ‘Jazz Samba Encore’ is getting a Verve Acoustic Sounds Series Reissue. It'll be out on vinyl later this year.

Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the cool beat of bossa nova. What could that possibly have to do with the D.C. area? Well, it turns out that the album “Jazz Samba,” which introduced to the world ...

When Alva Anderson was given a CD with Brazilian samba music, she immediately knew she had to start learning Portuguese as the samba songs she previously sang in English now had new meaning to her. “I ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Anitta has become a pop music sensation in her native Brazil and abroad, but Monday she will have her first shot to prove herself on the country's biggest stage: the Sambadrome. This ...

The Brazil sound is what I crave. If you have an appetite for a little more ‘savory’ music (as they say: Vamos lá), I have two Brazilian musical phenoms to recommend: one from Rio and the other from ...

After three successful concerts in Rio de Janeiro and Houston in 2016, the group will be mesmerizing the Houston audience with the sensual rhythms of bossa nova played in the upbeat, energizing style ...

One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when they recognized a woman walking by. The two men were so ...