Benito di Paula, the pianist-singer behind "Retalhos de Cetim," died Oct. 18 at 84. His legacy and Brazil's charged election week explained.

Brazil is called samba-exaltacao, or exaltatio in samba. "Samba de Uma Nota Só" is . . . well . . . "One Note Samba." It's a ...

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 ...

Dozens of people gathered Saturday night at the Haile Village Center to connect with Brazilian culture through food and drumming by Bloco GNV at a Carnaval event hosted by Samba Brazilian Kitchen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Casa de Francisca Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and ...

Samba and soccer, the Amazon rainforest, and the world's largest Japanese-descendant community.Opportunities to hear the country name "Brazil" in news and business settings are increasing.The land ...

A few days after Carnival in Brazil in 2025, one of the country’s premier samba schools, Salgueiro, issued a blistering critique on Instagram of the Rio de Janeiro judges. Salgueiro is a perennial top ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Samba and literature rarely share the same stage, but at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two samba schools used their parades to tell the stories of Black Brazilian female ...

At Austin Samba School, students are dressed in American-flag cowboy outfits and dancing to a samba rhythm. And class has just begun. The dance school combines the study of Brazilian samba with Texas ...

Rio nightlife for Tuesday, 20 October 2026: samba and choro in Gamboa and Lapa, plus the big dates later this week, with ...