Brazilian Music

Our music shows how different and big our country is. The most famous rhythms are Samba, Choro, Bossa Nova, Música Popular Brasileira, Samba-reggae, Baião, Forró and Frevo.

- Frevo is a popular kind of music from Pernambucano. It comes from marcha and maxixe. It was “born” in Recife at the end of the 20th century and it is known because of its fast rhythm.

- Different types of music, from Brazil´s northeast, form Forró. The most famous rhythms that form this kind of music are Baião, Coco, Rojão, Quadrilha, Xaxado and Xote.

- Funk Carioca (from Rio de Janeiro) is a kind of dance music, originated and similar to Miami Bass. In Rio, it´s very popular and it isn´t similar to the funk people all over the world are used to.

- The world discovered Nova Bossa in 1963, because of the gratest hit “Garota de Ipanema”, by Antônio Carlos Jobim ,that won four Grammies that year. He was one of the best composers we had. He died on December 08, 1994 in Nova York City.

- Samba is the most important kind of Brazilian music, that had its orign in Africa. Its name is, probably, referred to the African word “semba”, a religious rhythm, which means “umbigada”.

- Choro can be considered as the first urban music that is typically Brazilian. The first groups appeared in 1880, in Rio de Janeiro, especially inside poor neighborhoods.

HERE IN BRAZIL YOU CAN FIND THE KIND OF MUSIC YOU LIKE!!

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Centro Britânico
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