By Fabio Pires
Noel Rosa – Poeta da Vila (2007)
In his first feature Noel – Poeta da Vila (2007), director Ricardo van Steen tells the story of one of the most important songwriters of Brazilian popular music – Noel Rosa.
Born into a Rio de Janeiro middle class milieu in 1910, Noel Rosa was the first musician to [...]
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The Budos Band’s sound is self-described as a kind of “hallucinogenic venom” that induces “spontaneous fits of head-nodding […] and uncontrollable getting down."
If you missed their previous performance at BAM, you can catch them now: Budos is back—this time as part of BAM’s exuberant celebration of the music of Brazil, Red Hot + Rio 2."
The [...]
