In a little-visited northern corner of Rio de Janeiro, a new music trail is helping travellers slip into the rhythms of ...

In Brazil, D.C.’s own go-go music is meeting the beats of samba and District landmarks that are being brought to life on the wall of a building. It’s part of a cultural exchange between D.C. and the ...

First, Vitor Oliveira sold the ground floor of the bare-bones brick building he constructed near the top of his sprawling ...

Vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi has released her fourth jazz album, “Riofonic.” The album for the U.S. market was produced by New York guitarist, arranger and musical director Paul Ricci and was recorded in ...

Known as Beco das Garrafas, or “Bottles Alley,” the site earned its name because residents of the surrounding apartment buildings would hurl bottles into the alley in protest when the music became too ...

A spectacular firework and music display during Rock in Rio's 2013 festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which entertained a crowd of nearly 600,000 people. A similar experience can be expected at Rock ...

View of Rio de Janeiro. Photo by sandeepachetan.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) via Flickr With the summer Olympics in full swing, I wanted to highlight two great songs about the country as well as the carioca ...

Aged 10, he began playing at dances and weddings, before going on to play forró and other traditional Brazilian music across the region. In the late 1950s, he moved to Rio de Janeiro and ... sparked ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by SURFACING In a city known for samba, “nobody expects a black, poor woman to play the violin.” By Walter Thompson-Hernández Lucas Freitas Nascimento, ...

Three decades ago in Rio de Janeiro, Freddie Mercury made history with a performance of the Queen hit “Love of My Life,” at the now-legendary Rock in Rio music festival. The scene of thousands of ...

Uncover the shocking truth behind Beyoncé and Alicia Keys' secret music video drama in Brazil. Mathew Knowles spills the ...