RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — This kind of battle was good news for the impoverished, sometimes violent Cidade de Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: a rap duel in a local bar held for the first time since the ...

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SAO PAULO, May 15 (Reuters) - Maria Luiza Kaluzny thought that to become a successful violinist she would need to leave her working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest ...

Few artists are able to turn the complexity of Brazil into poetry. Brazil is a continental-sized country filled with complex social problems and widespread differences in faith, regional ...

In 2023, hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary since its birth in The Bronx, New York. This influential genre has transcended borders and profoundly impacted Latin American culture. From its ...

A Brazilian town has banned rap music from this year's Carnival festivities. Mayor Jose Neto announced that the town of Sao Lourenco, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, will not allow the ...

CAMBRIDGE — As more than two dozen people circled around the first two rappers ready to battle in North Point Park, the group chanted in Portuguese, “Three, two, one, rhyme!” With the Boston skyline ...

UFOs and extraterrestrials, a mother with supernatural power, a colonial emperor, and rap battles with a third eye – those are just some of the ingredients of Brazilian film projects getting funding ...

Brazilian rapper Sabotage, 29, was shot to death in Sao Paulo, Brazil yesterday morning (Jan. 24). Sabotage, whose real name is Mauro Mateus dos Santos, was shot in the head and chest four times as he ...