The Brazilian Beat

Promotes multicultural dissemination between both countries, Mexico and Brazil, through musical dissemination. Expressing our art through samba school bateria originating in Rio De Janeiro with  young Mexicans, incorporating our roots and Mexican culture, taking the concept of Day of the  Dead trad

Diego de Oliveira was Born and raised in Nilópolis. Since he was very young, Diego has lived in the world of samba. He has been a Mestre sala, was part of the Kids bateria  and is currently a bateria director at the Beija-Flor samba school in Nilópolis. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he paraded as a

Robert Lopez Bio:Robert Lopez is a percussionist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His background in various types of music such as folkloric traditions of Brazil, Ghana and Cuba, alongside contemporary chamber music and free improvisation, allow him to maintain a malleable approach

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Sabrina Ginga of Salgueiro Samba School and Mestre Curtis of Casa Samba We are running a fundraiser for a software purchase, Zoom, Adobe Suite and our annual website fees. Support the podcast click below. Click here to support us! Watch the episode here!

Photo by Nelson Malfacini www.instagram.com/nelsonmalfacini/ Gustavo Perez, nicknamed Nômade, is originally from São Paulo, where he originally learned to play samba. He played with many samba schools as a youth. He eventually moved to Rio where he joined the samba scene and built quite a reputati

Bio:About Silvia Manrique Silvia Manrique is a Chicago-based Brazilian and Latin Jazz vocalist. She has performed at respected venues and festivals like the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Logan Square Arts Festival, the Chicago World Music Festival, the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the Millennium Par

Bio:Laísa Lima was born into samba, as the daughter of samba legend,  Laíla, and samba performer Elaine, and granddaughter of ala director, Jurema. She grew up seeing her family

Renan Gohan tells us about growing up playing samba and being a director at Imperatriz today. We talk about what Imperatriz's win means for the community, what makes Mestre Lolo such a good mestre, his feelings the day of the apuração and so much more.