It wasn’t hard to find Lô Borges. Growing up in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, he would hang out on the corner of Divinópolis and Paraisópolis, smoking and singing Beatles songs with his ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID. He was 83. The death Thursday of the ...

Director: [[miyanaga, Michael Iyanaga]] About: The ensemble performs a repertoire comprising roots samba, choro, samba-de-roda, and forró, as well as more contemporary Afro-Bahian pop music. With a ...

He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

My roommate once noted that I only sing in the apartment when we play Brazilian music. I realized that I remember lyrics to Brazilian songs better than American ones, which I tend to misunderstand.

Growing up in a musical family in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay, Yamandu Costa took up the guitar when he was 7 years old. By the time he was a teenager, he ...

GOIANIA, BRAZIL >> Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil’s most popular singers who was killed a day earlier in an airplane ...

Sergio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID. He was 83. The death Thursday of the ...