This is a wonderful way to travel to Brasil with out leaving your home town... A pagode (pah - godg -ee)is a kind of informal party with a special type of samba music. Everyone knows the songs and ...

They announced and warranted that samba was going to end. That was what Assis Valente (1911-1958) used to say, in a modern parody of his famous composition about the end of the world, sung by Carmen ...

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 ...

Brazilian singer and composer Hildemar Diniz, known as Monarco and considered one of the most important figures of samba music, died Saturday aged 88. His death was announced by Portela, one of the ...

Brazilian singer and composer Hildemar Diniz, known as Monarco and considered one of the most important figures of samba music, died Saturday aged 88. His death was announced by Portela, one of the ...