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Amazing BBC documentary about Brazilian music

February 7, 2012

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

February 4, 2012

“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

January 19, 2012

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

January 14, 2012

 
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

January 13, 2012
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Every month you will find here the latest Brazilian films released. Get some popcorn and enjoy!

1 – As aventuras de Agamenon, o repórter
Irreverent Casseta & Planeta troupe tells the story of the goofy journalist Agamenon …

Amy Winehouse, the Girl from Ipanema

December 5, 2011 6 Comments

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.