日本人のブラジル音楽というと、誰もが思い浮かべるのはおそらく小野リサだろう。「日本人でもボサノバ、できるんだ」みたいな感覚を与えてくれた。 この今井亮太郎のニュー･アルバムは、その感覚とはまた違って、「ピアノでもボサノバ、できるんだ ...

In 1950s Brazil was born the bossa nova, the 'new thing', an entrancing music based on the samba, with a cool sensibility, an emblematic classical guitar sound and poetic lyrics. Australian musician ...

This is the first of a four-part series featuring Japanese emigration to Brazil. Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of the first group to venture to the South American country. Lisa Ono, an early ...

I was living with my father in Malaysia when he took me to his film club to see Black Orpheus. The 1959 award-winning film, made by French director Marcel Camus, tells the tragic story of an ...

The Brazilian musician who made bossa nova popular around the world dies peacefully, surrounded by his wife and children BRAZIL, South America – Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa ...

The man who made bossa nova an international sensation has died at 83, after a 60-year, 35-album career that straddled musical genres Bringing Brazilian music to the world and the world to Brazilian ...

In a quaint bungalow humming with Portuguese, a cool breeze of lilting harmonies and rhythmic bounce invites a leisurely sway to the tranquility of bossa nova. It’s a modern take on a sound pioneered ...

Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. No ...