Note from BW of Brazil: The origins of today’s post actually go back several months. The first incident that made me think of covering this […]
Note from BW of Brazil: The funk music that comes out of Brazil’s favelas has been a topic discussed here on the blog in a […]
Note from BW of Brazil: The topic of the music genre known as funk has been featured from time to time on this blog. In […]
Note from BBT: The sudden death of the musician, arranger, producer and bandleader Letieres Leite last month saddened me for several minutes when the news […]
Note from BBT: Anyone who has known me for the past few years or for several years could probably tell you that I am not […]
Note from BBT: I received this sad news in a similar manner that I’d received other stories and similar to other reports, I intially didn’t […]
Funk singer MC Rebecca featured in times square ad and feature in rolling stone magazine article on International Hitmakers By Marques Travae MC Rebecca is […]
Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade thrills viewers with routine to rhythm of funk song; with Simone Biles dropping out, she now has the top score at […]
Note from BBT: Black Brazilians going global. That’s what comes to my mind with all of the international recognition that the community has garnered over the […]
Note from BBT: In previous posts, I’ve gone into how it’s been a difficult month of May for 2020. In reality, I’ll just say that […]
Note from BBT: As one might gather from some of my previous posts, I’ve been a fan of Brazilian music for two decades now. In […]
Note from BBT: In my March 4th post on the Orquestra Afro-Brasileira, I mentioned a CD compilation called Putumayo Presents Brasileiro that was my official […]
Note from BBT: I can’t really remember when I first became of aware of musician Jonathan Ferr or his short film “A Jornada”. I vaguely […]
Note from BBT: Shortly after I began to dive into the experiences of black folks in Brazil, it wasn’t long after that my attention would […]
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