Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio's Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play. Surrounded by a mostly young crowd, seven musicians sit around a table with the ...

Nothing captures the sound, the mood or the languor of summer quite like the bossa nova. Invented along the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, the quietly swaying Brazilian music became a ...

At Austin Samba School, students are dressed in American-flag cowboy outfits and dancing to a samba rhythm. And class has just begun. The dance school combines the study of Brazilian samba with Texas ...

Part of the large and enthusiastic crowd which enjoyed the Samba Parade through the town on Sunday afternoon. Picture: Paul Mohan Rio Mitchell from Five Oaks at the Samba Parade through the town on ...

Samba, widely viewed as Brazil's national music style, was developed in Rio de Janeiro under the influence of immigrant black people from the Brazilian state of Bahia. Its roots are African, mainly ...

Samba has its roots among the slaves of Brazil's northeast Bahia before arriving in Rio, then the country's capital, where it took form and became the soul of the Brazilian carnival. Today, samba ...