Brazilian Music and Dance

[Prosal]

Pagode romantico is a style appreciated essentially by the lower classes.

Raça Negra, a band from Sao Paulo periferias, is with So Pra Contrariar (Alexandre Pirez) the most representative bands of this musical style.

Raça Negra - Maravilha

[Prosal]

Marisa. I love her.

Give me anyday Marisa better than Ivete or Daniela, those stupid gooses singing shitty bahianian hits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCTP...elated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-p3bnk928A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doU59v5LxVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwl2efZPX8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxPlh...elated&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKnVA...elated&search=

[Prosal]

Sabotage. Zona Sul (from the movie "O Invasor").

The video has been shooted in Capao Redondo neighborhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Zqn7x58j0

[Prosal]

Titas has always been with Legiao Urbana the greatest rock band in Brasil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYj_...eature=related ( É Preciso Saber Viver, their most famous hit)

Someone have maybe recognized the singer, Paulo Miklos, from his hallucinating role in the - great - movie O Invasor (The Trepasser) .

[Prosal]

Sertaneja (country music originally from the rural "sertões") is highly popular in the SP state, Minas, Goias (the brasilian Texas), Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Parana.

Sertaneja constitutes each year more than 40% of all the albums sold in Brasil. Go figure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnm6EftMMmM

[Prosal]

Still highly popular brasilian rock. They made numerous hits, including this one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJCfKayp3s

[Prosal]

Talking about Cassia Eller. She's one of the brasilian most famous rock icon.

Cassia Eller - No Recreio

She died in 2001 from drugs and alcohols abuses. As for Renato Russo (Legiao Urbana), her popularity after her untimely death has continued to grow.

[Prosal]

A friend wrote and said she's going to take me to see something called "chorinho, " which I'd never heard of?

You can hear chorinho (a traditional music played by a trio) in Lapa and Santa Teresa bars. Ballroom in Humaita has also a chorinho night on Tuesdays if my memory serves.

As we talk about brasilian music, here is a video of very good progressive MPB. The short haired singer used to sing with Cassia Heller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1m9VJksv0

[Jan 156]

Quite hard to get outside Brasil - pick it up from somewhere like Modern Sound when you're in Rio. Double You Live. Get the DVD - the CD of the same name misses the best tracks! This is a Euro band adopted by Brasil and mote or less stayed there. The live concert is from Sao Paulo. Euro dance music that Brasilians go mental for.

[Pelongera]

Tijuana. To be fair, it's the general thread rather than the Rio one and plenty of guys are interested in using music and dance to connect with GDPs and non-GDPs, even if the discussion has rather outstayed its welcome. As I was one of the people who answered the original query. Though not, I hope you will note, continued it, I must take some blame if blame is due (I thought some of the replies were way off, but kept silent for the very reason you suggest. It gets too much). I don't on the other hand have any interest in the gpguia site and even less in discussing proxies.

Could I suggest that people wanting to continue dance and music queries PM the people concerned. Similarly might be appropriate if the gpguia discussion gets overly technical.

This whole board, with the occasional exception, has got way too piecemeal for my liking, but we have to live and let live a bit.

sooo, is it okay to talk (and ask follow-up questions) about specific dances, musicians and pieces of brazilian music, now?

In any event, let me say thank you guys, including you, Christopherd, for your suggestions. That was great!

A friend wrote and said she's going to take me to see something called "chorinho, " which I'd never heard of?

Does chorinho in Rio sound appealing to you?

[Prosal]

Oh, I forgot, this is the Brazilian dance thread!

This is called culture.

Yeah, cultural awareness (and language skills) goes a long way everywhere in the world, and this is maybe even more true in Brasil.

I understand that with such an handle you don't care a lot about brasilian culture though.

[Jan 156]

Hey Java,
I had problems accessing the site from Rio recently. Not sure what is going on.
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Oh, I forgot, this is the Brazilian dance thread!

Admin: take note, the same guys are always at it!
TJ

TJ - to be fair, it's the general thread rather than the Rio one and plenty of guys are interested in using music and dance to connect with GDPs and non-GDPs, even if the discussion has rather outstayed its welcome. As I was one of the people who answered the original query - though not, I hope you will note, continued it, I must take some blame if blame is due (I thought some of the replies were way off, but kept silent for the very reason you suggest - it gets too much). I don't on the other hand have any interest in the gpguia site and even less in discussing proxies.

Could I suggest that people wanting to continue dance and music queries PM the people concerned. Similarly might be appropriate if the gpguia discussion gets overly technical.

This whole board, with the occasional exception, has got way too piecemeal for my liking, but we have to live and let live a bit.

[Meteko]

We're still talking about music one dances "forro" to, right?

No, not the ones I suggested. Sorry if that was confusing.
The ones I suggested are rather ' let's have a party with Brazillian tunes that are not as repetitively dumb as that bailla-funk'.
(ok, there's some Venezuelian stuff there as well..)

M

[Prosal]

pagote, samba and forro.

You should add Sertaneja to the list (especially if you venture to Centro-Oeste, where the country & western culture is preponderant).

It constitutes more than 40% of the CDs sold each year in Brasil. Go figure!

[Prosal]

Can you recommend a good teacher in Rio, Christopherd, forro or samba?

In Rio you could try Ballroom in Humaita district (rua Humaita), a dance-oriented hall/club with a variety of live music, including Forro (on Wed if my memory serves).

No teachers but lots of potential partners.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVHWPFDddxg