RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anitta has become a pop music sensation in her native Brazil and abroad, but Monday she will have her first shot to prove herself on the country's biggest stage: the Sambadrome.

Mendes: Paul McCartney enjoyed his uptempo version of the Beatles standard The Fool on the Hill - Jim McCrary/Redferns Sérgio Mendes, who has died in Los Angeles aged 83, created a string of worldwide ...

Sérgio Mendes, a musician who emerged with Brazil's bossa nova movement in the 1960s and became an ambassador for that country's music around the world, died Thursday in his adopted hometown of Los ...

Trombonist and composer Felipe Brito melds Afro-Brazilian and Native-Brazilian sensibilities with modern jazz language for his scintillating debut, “Não Deixe para Amanhã” Dr. Felipe Brito is a ...

Sérgio Mendes, a singer and composer who helped popularize the bossa nova music of his native Brazil, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family shared in a statement with CNN. Mendes was 83. “His wife ...

Alok is no stranger to the global stage. As one of the world’s most in-demand DJs, the 33-year-old Brazilian producer has amassed millions of monthly streams and regularly spins in cities like SÁ£o ...

As a young pianist in Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Simas played in a prog-rock combo and a psychedelic rock band. But after he moved to New York City in 1989, his focus turned to writing and playing songs in ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...