Tag: samba
Brazilian samba icon: Elza Soares is dead
Status: 01/21/2022 07:48 a.m She mixed samba, jazz, hip hop and funk and released more than 30 albums. She is considered by many to be the “singer of the millennium”.…
Brazilian singer: Voice of the Millennium: Samba singer Elza Soares is dead
Brazilian singer Voice of the Millennium: Samba singer Elza Soares is dead Brazilian singer Elza Soares performs at the Rock in Rio music festival. (Archive image) Photo: Leo Correa/AP/dpa ©…
Controversy after the dance of a samba troupe
A samba show with dancers deemed too naked sparked controversy this week in Saudi Arabia, as local authorities opened an investigation in this very conservative Gulf kingdom. The Muslim monarchy…
Rio’s Carnival and Corona: “Samba survived, today we are celebrating”
Status: 07.12.2021 11:10 a.m. Hardly any other country has been hit as hard by the pandemic as Brazil. The carnival was canceled. But now almost everyone in Rio is fully…
Five favorites of the week: From the IAA in Munich to Anita Daniel – culture
Virtual reality glasses for passengers If you haven’t had enough of the cars that were standing around so grandly covered in make-up this week at the IAA in Munich, with…