Brazilab/ Brazilian Music Online

12/10/2024

Relased Oct. 11th, 2024. Stephen Marley + Gilberto Gil + Global Artists for the Playing For Change campaign! No Woman No Cry! Brilliant and moving. Music Is The Answer. Peace! Now!

Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Marley's iconic hit, "No Woman No Cry," with Playing For Change's new Song Around The World featuring Gilb...

18/09/2024

GREAT piece and links on Brazilian Funk!! Crazy sound innovation, underground and self made, like Punk! Music for the youth, from the youth, unfiltered, uncensored! Like it not, it ROCKS!

If you’re anything like me—a Millennial rapidly (though gracefully!!!) aging out of even the most generous definition of “youth,” who once prided yourself on being a music head but who lost the pulse of your favored genres sometime around when all the new rappers were named [Something] Baby....

10/09/2024

Mr. Sergio Mendes.

The pianist and bandleader, who died in September, was one of the most respected ambassadors of Brazilian sounds like bossa nova and samba.

28/08/2024

Great piece about the great work done by the great JAZZ IS DEAD Jazz Is Dead crew!

Hundreds of artists, including Tyler The Creator, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Kanye West, and Lauryn Hill, have sampled performers who have graced the Jazz Is Dead stage in person, from Roy Ayers to Sister Nancy. “These guys are in their eighties, and they have so much energy and life," said a co-founder of...

01/08/2024

Milton "Bituca" Nascimento + Esperanza Spalding !!!!

Milton Nascimento, a musical deity in Brazil, collaborates with the bassist, vocalist and producer Esperanza Spalding on an album that contemplates age’s effect on art.

29/07/2024

Hola! Great interview with master Marcos Valle !!

For Marcos Valle, retirement is something unimaginable. It's not in his plans. In the transition from 80 to 81 years old, he wants more. From August to

15/05/2024

Milton + Esperanza! Wow! Can't wait to hear it!
Milton "Bituca" Nascimento Esperanza Spalding

The album features 16 tracks that celebrate and reimagine five of Nascimento’s beloved classics and newly written originals by Spalding…

25/04/2024

Brazilian Funk on Barron's

Born in impoverished favelas, Rio de Janeiro funk music has emerged as a global phenomenon, embraced by superstars from Anitta to Beyonce and starring in museum shows -- though it still faces stigma in Brazil.

17/04/2024

1974 Was a great year for Latin and Brazilian music. Check this out!

Fifty years ago, the sounds that dominated Latin music were thriving. Rock had become ambitious (and intellectual), the New York salsa explosion was at

10/04/2024

Great piece on National Geographic about the thriving music and arts scene in São Paulo. Time has come for this megacity! Great to be here!

In Brazil’s largest city — an ever-evolving metropolis of intertwined cultures — diasporas from across the globe use music, art and dance to make their mark.

06/04/2024

Acabo de ver este video arrepiante da SCHOOL OF ROCK do RIo de Janeiro. Uma homenagem ao incrível Cazuza! O Tempo Não Para! Asistam! School of Rock Botafogo Cazuza

Um vídeo incrível para uma linda homenagem!Hoje, Cazuza, um dos ícones do rock nacional, completaria 66 anos. Para homenagear essa lenda, mais de 100 alunos ...

01/04/2024

Completely thrilled to have been interviewed with John Carlin from The Red Hot Organization by Brenda Sisane from South Africa's Kaya 959 FM about Red Hot's music and amazing social awareness campaigns since 1990 through today with the release of the Sun Ra series of albums. Thank you Brenda! To listen: The Red Hot Organization

We observe Human Rights with the Redhot.org Music catalog made for freedom and tolerance' with the founder of RedHot John Carlin and Brazilian music expert and a multi-faceted independent music, culture and entertainment creative producer Béco Dranoff.

12/03/2024

Have you heard it??

Read Sadie Sartini Garner’s review of the album.

14/02/2024

SEU JORGE + DAVID BOWIE = GENIUS!

For the 2004 Wes Anderson film 'The Life Aquatic', Brazilian pop titan Seu Jorge set about recording an album of David Bowie covers, recorded in Portuguese

30/12/2023

19/12/2023

RAIOU is the new album by OvelhaNegra (producer Wagner Bagão. An amazing excursion into modern Afro-Brazilian grooves with a twist. Check it out in all platforms. Brasil Discos