Amazing BBC documentary about Brazilian music

Do you need a quick but in-depth overview of Brazilian rhythms and their main representatives?  The BBC made a great documentary with a sample of all the basics, from the early days of samba, in …

Ten versions of Tom Jobim’s “How Insensitive” – from Doris Day to Ryuichi Sakamoto

“Insensatez”, Tom Jobim’s Bossa Nova known internationally as “How Insensitive”, is an essential jazz standard. Inspired by a Chopin prelude, it has lyrics by poet/diplomat Vinícius de Moraes, with whom Jobim also composed “The Girl …

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 …

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 …

Upcoming Brazilian movies

Every month you will find here the latest Brazilian films released. Also, don’t forget to check our previous lists. Get some popcorn and enjoy!

1 – As aventuras de Agamenon, o repórter
Irreverent Casseta & Planeta troupe …

Amy Winehouse, the Girl from Ipanema

The posthumous album by Amy Winehouse, the Brit enfant terrible/singer recently deceased, was released today. It includes her version for the Bossa Nova classic “Garota de Ipanema”, performed in Miami in 2002, when she was 18.