Ivete uses a lot of upbeat Bahian rhythms. She is well known for her powerful voice and she is also popular in Portugal. She has sung with American singer Brian McKnight as well. Her other hits are also “Quando a Chuva Passar” and “Berimbau Metalizado”. Ivete Sangalo’s big hit “Sorte Grande” get her the spotlight. Mercury along with a couple other female singers had over twenty million albums sold worldwide. Her other major hits are O Canto da Cicade, Batuque, O Mais Belo dos Belos, and Voce Nao Entende Nada. Mercury was the lead singer of a pop group called Companhia Clic. Then she moved onto a career with Gilberto Gil as his backup singer, making the hits “Pega que Oh!” and “Ilha das Bananas.” It was not long after that she fell upon a solo career with her hit Olodum on the album “Swing da Cor.” Now she produces her own music in her own way and negotiates the labels. As a Brazilian female singer, Daniela began with a band called Cheiro de Amor. Olodumĭaniela Mercury is one of Brazil’s best known singers. Jobim put his work with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz to get his music familiar to English speaking citizens. Other people now perform his samba songs in Brazil and internationally. His song The Girl from Ipanema was one of the most recorded songs in Jazz and Pop repertoires of all time. The Girl from IpanemaĪntonio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, also known as Tom Jobim, helped discover the Bossa Nova style. He began playing the guitar and singing in a tiny bathroom. Gilberto had no life before his music career and one person by the name of Luiz Telles saved him. Gilberto created music based on older samba songs from the 40’s and 50’s that appealed to him and a crowd. Elizeth Cardosa began with Gilberto as her guitarist. Joao Gilberto: With the style of Bossa Nova, The Song () was the hit to begin Gilberto’s career in 1957. There are also other major parades in the region, such as the one in Pompeu. They are held mostly by students’ houses, which attract a majority of young people from the neighbor states. Minas also holds some important carnival parades, mainly in the historic cities of Ouro Preto, Mariana, Sao Joao del Rei and Diamantina. Each school presents a different theme, which they expose through their costumes, dance, music and the allegorical cars or “ carros alegóricos”, huge vehicles decorated according to the theme designed specifically for the parade). Various “samba schools” compete in a huge parade. The carnival in Sao Paulo takes place in the Sanbodrome of Anhembi on the Friday and Saturday night of the week of Carnival, as opposed to Rio’s Carnival, which is held on Sunday and Monday night.

Galo da Madrugada is the biggest carnival parade in the world, considering the number of participants, according The Guinness Book of World Records. It means “dawn’s rooster” and parades, as the name suggests, in the morning only. The North East state of Pernambuco has unique Carnivals in its present capital Recife and in its colonial capital Olinda. Their main rhythms are the frevo and the maracatu.

It’s also possible to watch everything from the Camarotes (ringside seats) spread out along the way, offering more comfort to the visitors.

The musical styles are different at each carnival in Bahia there are many rhythms, including samba, samba-reggae, axe, etc., while in Rio there is the multitude of samba styles. Every year, about half a million tourists are attracted to Salvador. There are several major differences between Carnival in the state of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. There are big crowds at some locations and life is far from ordinary in many parts of town. Hotel rooms and other lodgings can be up to four times more expensive than the regular rates. Rio de Janeiro style originally mimicked the European form of the festival, later absorbing and creolizing elements derived from Native American and African cultures. Carnival time in Rio is a very interesting, but is also the most expensive time to visit Rio. These are different styles from different regions of Brazil: In Pernambuco and Bahia (northern region) the main genres are the frevo, maracatu, samba-reggae. The typical genres of music of Brazilian Carnival are, in Rio de Janeiro samba-enredo, samba de bloco, samba de embalo, and marchinha. Those official parades are meant to be watched by public. In southeastern part of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Vitoria, huge organized parades are led by samba schools. Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from various region in Brazil. The Carnival of Brazil is an annual festival held during the Friday to Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.

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