Luciano Xavier began drumming in his native Brazil before he was even tall enough to reach the top of a drum. At 4 years old, his godfather noticed his rhythmic ability and built him a special stand ...

It’s not Carnival, and we’re not in Brazil, but we do have a festival — Exit Zero Jazz Festival — and PhillyBloco will bring the best of Brazilian percussion right to our own backyard when it plays ...

Mateus Picanco Lima Gomes ’18 grew up playing music in Brazil. When he was 11, he learned to strum the four-stringed cavaquinho. But as time went on, his interest in traditional Brazilian music waned, ...

Wallace Leite from San Francisco found himself in the middle of thousands of Brazil’s most fanatic supporters during the country’s 2022 World Cup round-of-16 beatdown of South Korea, leading the fans’ ...

Long time maker of drum grooves for Apple’s GarageBand and Logic music creation applications, Beta Monkey Music on Monday released a new set of grooves in the Brazilian drum style. Drum Werks XIV: The ...

Since the pandemic, amateur musicians have flocked to the Brazilian percussion ensemble Miamibloco and built a community around samba in the process. After months of pandemic isolation, a lot of ...

A writer struggled with being present. This Brazilian drum helped her pay attention. By Carolina Abbott Galvão Earlier this year, Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” came on at a party ...

Marcelo started studying music aged 13 years playing drums. He graduated in percussions at São Paulo State University in 2000. During the four years of his graduate studies he participated to the ...

Samba can’t be learned from a textbook alone. Brazil’s musical tradition is best understood first-hand and up close — close enough to feel the drumbeat reverberate inside you. “ It's like an ocean of ...

A picture may capture a thousand words, but Brazilian percussion group Ilê Aiyê demonstrates how a melody embraced in polyrhythmic harmonies can convey meaning beyond what can be spoken or seen. On ...

Choro is an instrumental genre of music which dates back to Rio de Janeiro in the late 1800s, when immigrants to the country brought European styles and melodic structures that fused with the native ...