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Listen to all Nara Leão songs for free

January 19, 2012
Listen to all Nara Leão songs for free

Nara Leão, one of Bossa Nova’s muses and lead singers, would be 70 today. To celebrate that, her daughter Isabel Diegues organized a beautiful website where you can listen to absolutely all songs performed by …

New Caipirinha Appreciation Society podcast

January 17, 2012
New Caipirinha Appreciation Society podcast

MdC Suinge and Kika Serra are the creators of the coolest Brazilian music show hosted in English, the never boring, never obvious Caipirinha Appreciation Society. They just released their first 2-hour program of 2012, playing …

Luiza está no Canadá – the weird ad from Paraíba that became viral

January 17, 2012 21 Comments
Luiza está no Canadá – the weird ad from Paraíba that became viral

Instant Youtube success: Gerardo Rabello, a social columnist from João Pessoa, capital of the state of Paraíba, announces a new construction project and says it is so great that all the family will attend the …

Famous father/daughter duets

January 16, 2012 One Comment

There is something sweet about the mixed voices of fathers and their daughters.

Itamar and Anelis Assumpção

Essential documentary about Baden Powell

January 14, 2012
Essential documentary about Baden Powell

 
Baden Powell de Aquino, baptized in honor of the founder of the Boy Scouts Movement in a small town of the state of Rio, was one of the country’s greatest guitar players, capable of mixing …

The top 10 songs on the 2011 Brazilian charts

January 13, 2012

Crowley Broadcast Analysis, that monitors radios all around the world, just released a list of the ten songs that were in the Brazilian top chart during 2011. Most of them you have seen before on …