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 ...

2 FIM DE PARTIDA (Endgame) Returns: Marco Nanini Stars in Beckett Masterpiece at Teatro Paulo Autran The musical portrays the life and times of Brazilian singer-songwriter Ivone Lara da Costa, better ...

The continually evolving relationship between American jazz and Brazilian music is firm proof that the power of influence often travels in two directions. Todd Barkan's liner notes for Jive Samba ...

Martinho da Vila (born February 12, 1938) is a Brazilian singer and composer who is considered to be one of the main representatives of samba and MPB. He is a prolific songwriter, with hundreds of ...

Grammy-winning Latin-music producer Aaron Levinson joins WXPN's David Dye for this, the 17th segment of World Cafe's Latin Roots series. Levinson, a Philadelphia native, started his music career at ...

The banner on the back wall of the old dance hall says in Portuguese: “While there is dance, we still have hope.” There’s plenty of that as the crowd of Cariocas (Rio locals) shake hips and move their ...

On a Friday evening in late July, a tropical downpour soaked Rio de Janeiro. It was not enough to deter the small crowd of revelers as they gathered around the entrance of Beco do Rato ("rat's alley") ...

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 ...

Groups such as Samba Que Elas Querem, whose rewrite of a samba classic prompted a legal tussle, are taking on the patriarchy It was a typical Friday night at the Beco do Rato, a samba club tucked down ...