It reflects my personal favorites from the wide, deep pool of Brazilian music," Yang says. She adds that its warmth and ...

Conexões Musicais and the city of Salvador, Brazil, were winners in their respective categories at the MCA – Music Cities ...

From samba beats to language workshops, Shanghai University's first China-Brazil Cultural Festival turned its campus into a ...

Christian music industry is booming in the country, but at Christmastime, congregations are singing the oldies.

This reflects the tricky politics of linking Brazilian music to the global pop landscape ... "I think the world has been accepting funk as culture, but it's still hard for different countries ...

The origins of Brazilian jazz are often traced to the late 1950s, to the advent of bossa nova by the composers Donato and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Blending samba (a style of music born out of the ...

and Brazilian music, on the world map. "Her talent, technique and audacity enriched and renewed our culture, rocked and marked the lives of millions of Brazilians," he added. Born in the north ...

Thirty-two-year-old pianist and composer Amaro Freitas creates music to bring him closer to understanding his ancestors. "I was somewhat cut from my Afro-Brazilian culture. A long time ago ...