Alongside Milton Nascimento, the singer and guitarist recorded one of the most influential and acclaimed records in Brazilian ...

Brazilian singer and songwriter Lô Borges died this Sunday (2) in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, at the age of 73, due to multiple organ failure. The artist had been hospitalized since ...

At just 23 years old, João Gomes has captured Brazil’s heart — and proved it during a free concert for 80,000 people at the ...

The world is watching Brazil after the country won its first Oscar for “I’m Still Here”, a film set in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship in the 1970s. The film’s smooth soundtrack feeds into ...

A pianist, composer and arranger, he rose to fame with the group Brasil ’66 and remained a force in popular music for more than six decades. By Barry Singer Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian-born pianist, ...

Vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi has released her fourth jazz album, “Riofonic.” The album for the U.S. market was produced by New York guitarist, arranger and musical director Paul Ricci and was recorded in ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after ...

On Friday, a samba line will snake through the Hamilton Listening Studio, as the nine-member Brazilian jazz group Desafinado plays a Batucada, leading the audience for the first time in almost 20 ...

The University of Wyoming Department of Music will present “An Evening of Brazilian Music for Viola and Piano” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital ...