HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Alabama-based Brazilian cover band Nossa Samba is celebrating big news as they’re making waves far beyond Huntsville. Nossa Samba has just landed on the 2025 Grammy ballot!

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 ...

The fourth annual Brazilian Fest Pompano Beach will show South Florida a different side of Brazil. Instead of featuring only samba performers, the festival, taking place Oct. 17, will showcase ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the cool beat of bossa nova. What could that possibly have to do with the D.C. area? Well, it turns out that the album “Jazz Samba,” which introduced to the world ...

Have you been experiencing Samba no pé (Samba of the foot) lately? Craving some pão de queijo but haven’t been able to find a place that serves it? Or have you simply been itching to learn a couple of ...

Explore the shanty towns of Río Janeiro and their role in the city's cultural history. The shanty towns of Río Janeiro play a pivotal role in the city's cultural history. They are home to a rich ...

The Brazil sound is what I crave. If you have an appetite for a little more ‘savory’ music (as they say: Vamos lá), I have two Brazilian musical phenoms to recommend: one from Rio and the other from ...

Maybe it's the warm weather. Maybe it's the world-famous beaches with mountains on the horizon in both cities. Well, whatever the reason, musician Roge says nothing makes him feel more like a native ...

One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when they recognized a woman walking by. The two men were so ...