Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - When she sways to the sensual beat of samba, Megumi Kudo also heals the wounds in her mother's heart from a huge earthquake that shattered their home city in Japan 20 years ago.
RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — It’s a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company’s drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles. But when night falls, she ...
HAYWARD -- In Brazil, the Rhythm of Samba is everywhere and in just weeks those same sounds will fill the air right here in the Bay Area at San Francisco's 45th annual Carnaval celebration and parade.
RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — At rehearsal for the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, a dancer poses for photos with admiring onlookers while wearing the bright yellow uniform and sky-high heels of the ...
TPM’s percussion band rehearse ahead of the all-female samba school’s second year at carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The sexism, stereotypes and sniggering don’t deter the members of TPM as they prepare ...
Thousands of samba dancers have been seen partying in Brazil for the opening of the city's world-famous carnival. The country's 12 top samba schools kicked off the annual parade competition in the ...
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Samba dancers, parkour, tributes to the Amazon and even Gisele! The 2016 Rio Olympics kicked off with an unforgettable production All of it. In its charting of the nation's rich cultural history, the ...