RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Samba and literature rarely share the same stage, but at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two samba schools used their parades to tell the stories of Black Brazilian ...

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 ...

More interested in creating beauty than shaking booty, Brazil’s Marisa Monte has stayed true to her artistic ambitions and her love of tradition as she stayed atop the charts — a pop star who doesn’t ...

The Samba style remained at the heart of everything they did. Their football was expressive, creative, fearless, and ...

The 26-year-old native of Cidade de Deus (City of God) is the “Queen of The Drum” and principal dancer and instructor at Paraíso do Tuiuti. Mayara’s edgy skill as a passista (dancer in Portuguese) has ...

Maybe it's the warm weather. Maybe it's the world-famous beaches with mountains on the horizon in both cities. Well, whatever the reason, musician Rogê says nothing makes him feel more like a native ...

Beth Carvalho, an exuberant, smoky-voiced Brazilian singer who filled soccer stadiums with her followers, battled music-industry machismo, and championed overlooked composers and performers — earning ...

Elza Soares, the prolific Brazilian singer who recorded 35 albums and opened the 2016 Olympics in Rio, died Thursday, according to an Instagram post shared on her official page. She was 91. According ...