You might not understand the lyrics in Grupo Liberdade’s new song “Batucada do Sol,” sung in Portuguese by Amanda Soares and Poranguí, but the energy the seven-piece band transfers to its listeners is ...

Hundreds of people are going to be in Phoenix attending an international Samba Queen and King competition in October. Angelique Starks from Samba AZ says she wanted to create the event for a sense of ...

Smangaliso Simelane is happiest when he's tapping on his keyboard or gripping a controller. He has been writing about video games since 2020 and he's not about to stop any time soon. He mostly enjoys ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — Strutting in a rainbow of glittering colors, Rio’s samba groups opened two days of Carnival parades with a dazzling show that included a rousing welcome for one of the ...

The Beija Flor samba group won its 10th carnival championship Wednesday, taking home top honors for a performance in which thousands of costumed drummers and dancers celebrated Brazil’s African roots.

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — Rio de Janeiro’s world-famed Carnival went up in flames Monday for thousands of people who spent nearly a year preparing for the spectacular event. Seamstresses, set ...

We previously tweeted with Executive Chef Michael Bloise of Sushi Samba Dromo about his departure from American Noodle Bar, but when we sat down with him to try out Samba’s newest menu items, called ...

Adelaide-based Brazilian national and ‘Australasian Samba Queen’ Talita Fontainha learned to dance samba in Australia, but now she is in Brazil preparing to debut on the world’s most famous samba ...

For 28 years, Gilma Cardoso Ferreira has saved for months before each Carnival to pay for the frilly, full-skirted outfit that transforms her, for one evening, from a retired public servant into one ...

RIO DE JANEIRO Monica and Marco Lira had joked that, one day, their third-grade daughter would dance her heart out as a drum corps queen in Rio’s annual Carnaval samba competition, which is seen by ...