Brazil

To music lovers and critics in Brazil, André Mehmari is a musical wonder and a source of national pride. To the ear, imagine a meeting of Mozart and Keith Jarrett in Brazil: Mozart for the intensity of his creation, Jarrett...

Luciane Dom The multilingual singer, songwriter and producer Luciane Dom is part of the new generation of contemporary artists from Rio de Janeiro representing Brazilian black music. Luciane´s performances incorporate various musical influences: from Afrobeat to Urban Jazz, Reggae, and...

For over four decades Vinicius Cantuária has been one of Brazil’s most accomplished songwriters. His compositions “Lua e Estrela” and “So Voce” are MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) classics that sold over 3 million copies each in the 1980s and 1990s....

Hailed by The Boston Globe as a “premier exponent of Chamamé“, Brazil-based Argentine composer, accordionist, and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores his chamamé heritage, an ancestral rhythm born of the encounter between the ritual musicality and cosmovision of the Indigenous Guaraní...