It’s a collaboration between Ruxell, who is one of Brazil’s A-List producers (IZA, Ludmilla, Pabllo Vitar) and Boachie from the critically acclaimed Da Beatfreakz. The song is a heartfelt, soulful, slow pop song called “Love After War”. Lots of ways to check it out (Spotify, Apple, Deezer, YouTube, Soundcloud) via this link https://lnk.to/loveafterwar
With a title that means “heat” in Portugese, this is undeniably the hottest Brazilian single of the summer! If you rock pop music Brasilia or underground baile funk music in the favelas, you might just know the artists Leo Justi/Heavy Baile and Ruxell. If not, well, it’s never too late to start.
This vid is a lot of fun. Sure, at the beginning it looks like a commercial for any feminine product of the last 70 years, but once it gets going, the movement is infectious. Nossa is a French girl group and they’re covering “Mas Que Nada,” the signature tune for Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66.
I love this. Cesária Évora is great and sorely missed. I wonder if there is a softer, more delcious language anywhere than Portuguese. I can always just about but never really quite understand it. – Kevin Hendrickson
Tthe xlr8tr website is offering a streaming mixtape of tasty Brazilian digital cumbia here. The offering is to celebrate a distribution deal between Buenos Aires music collective, ZZK, and Waxploitation, a global distributor. The mixtape includes emerging artists such as Chancha Via Circuito and Mati Zundel.
This is from the Youtube description for this video: “An amazing little girl who had her cleft lip surgery.People ask me why I volunteer overseas so much.. It takes my eyes off me and allows me to remember what life is all about. When we use what we have been given (whatever that might be) …
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Here is video from a mass cycling event in Brazil during which a car drives through the crowd of cyclists. Reports claim no one killed, but judging from the speed of impact in the video, some people must have been badly hurt. Viewer discretion advised.
Here’s Brazilian taxi driver Jean Walker with his stunning version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” delivered from behind the wheel of his cab: . Also in the Michael Jackson Suite at EastPortlandBlog.com: Tribute to Michael Jackson From Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy Brazilian Cab Driver Impersonates Michael Jackson Spectacularly On the Occasion of Michael Jackson’s Death, …