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 ...

NEW HAVEN >> Thelma Ladeira knew after her first dance class in Brazil at 5 years old that this was what she “was going to do for the rest of my life.” That was more than 30 years ago and Ladeira, now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over time, the Brazilian samba circle turned into a predominantly male realm. Now female musicians are pushing back. By Shannon Sims Step up to a traditional samba circle in Brazil and you’ll find ...