Caipira music, the real roots folk from Brazil
Música caipira, the music style that has its origins in the Brazilian countryside, somewhere around 1920, has a vague resemblance with Mexican ranchera music and […]
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Misterious peacock – when cordel literature seduced the country
“O Romance do Pavão Misterioso” (The Romance of the Misterious Peacock), published in 1920, is one of the most famous stories of literatura de cordel […]
Brazilian jukebox in Portuguese bus stops
What about listening to good Brazilian music while waiting for the bus? In Portugal you can!
Carmen Miranda impersonations
Always imitated, never equaled, singer/actress/persona Carmen Miranda died in 1955, but she remains one of the country’s main icons and ambassadors. A favorite of comedians […]
7 anthems to celebrate Brazilian Day
Let’s celebrate Brazil’s national day with some music. The National anthem may be the most popular – sang in parades on Independence Day and in […]
The music from Piauí
In a country where five cities – São Paulo, Rio, Brasilia, Recife and Salvador – seem to concentrate most of the musical production, or at […]
You have never seen Raul Seixas this way
Raul Seixas, the rock composer and singer who died 22 years ago at the age of 44, was one of the main representatives of the […]
Pifano, the Brazilian flute
Pífanos or pifes, the Brazilian flutes, are a product of the cultural fusions so typical in the country. On one hand, they are made of bamboo, […]
Tico-tico no fubá marathon
Tico-tico no fubá (literally, a very typical sparrow in cornmeal), chorinho composed by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917, is a virtuoso tour de force, included […]
Great pop music from the Amazon
The musical universe of the Amazon region, that includes rhythms brega, tecnobrega and tecnomelody, is mostly ignored by the rest of the country. Check here for […]