Julia Lira, Rio's 7-year-old Carnival drum corps queen, didn't like one bit of the cameras that honed in on her as she led a lavish samba parade, and reacted as any child might - by having a good cry.

BEIJING, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- China is Brazil's largest trading partner, and Brazil is also China's largest trading partner in Latin America. With the upgrading of the two countries in the ...

Julia Lira, 7, dances during a rehearsal by the Viradouro samba school in Rio de Janeiro. AP RIO DE JANEIRO — She is the Shirley Temple of samba, a 7-year-old named to a coveted Carnival role normally ...

Vania Pereira da Silva, a seamstress and member of the Unidos de Padre Miguel samba school, points to a wall damaged by stray bullets inside her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020.

Samba can’t be learned from a textbook alone. Brazil’s musical tradition is best understood first-hand and up close — close enough to feel the drumbeat reverberate inside you. “ It's like an ocean of ...

Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

Batalá Washington introduces the sounds and roles that each drum plays in the bateria, and puts together a basic samba reggae groove. Part of a series of educational videos created for the Smithsonian ...

COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (Reuters) - FIFA has banned samba drums from Brazil's World Cup stadiums but even though local authorities are not happy about it they say it will not diminish the atmosphere ...

(Second in a series looking at local reaction to the World Cup.) They showed a World Cup match with Portuguese commentary on Tuesday. At least, that was the rumor. South Africa has its vuvuzelas, the ...

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