This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the shuffling rhythms of samba, in its defiance and energy and lust for life, lies the soul of Rio de Janeiro. Samba is heard ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. Modern Brazil ...

The "Botafogo Samba Clube" samba school parades through the Sambodrome on the first day of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio de Janeiro, the world-famous parades in the Sambodrome have begun with ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — At a classical orchestra, a conductor’s raised hands often means the start of a performance. Tracing shapes in the air could point to how each beat must come. And one’s free fingers ...

On a recent Friday night, a potent cocktail of excitement, nerves and pent-up energy filled the midsummer air at Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sambadrome, as decked out performers from the Salgueiro ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A group of Brazilian transgender women have been learning samba in the last few months as they prepare to take the stage at the world-renowned Carnival parade in Rio ...

The festivities for Rio's Carnival kicked off Monday night as Samba school ‘Unidos da Tijuca’ took the stage with an Afro-Brazilian religious theme, paying tribute to Logun Edé, a deity from the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The pandemic may have disrupted Carnival plans in Rio de Janeiro for a second straight year, but revelers who have flocked to the Brazilian city for sun, sea and samba still ...