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Virginia Rodrigues
Virgínia Rodrigues (born Salvador, Bahia, March 31, 1964) is a Brazilian singer. Her music has an influence of classical music, samba, and jazz, and her lyrics reference Candomblé and Umbanda entities. Biography Virgínia Rodrigues was born in Salvador, Bahia on March 31, 1964. She had started her career by singing in both Catholic and Protestant church choirs. In 1997, she was invited by the director Márcio Meirelles to participate in the play ''Bye Bye Pelô,'' alongside the Bando de Teatro Olodum. During rehearsals, she discovered by Caetano Veloso. Her first album '' Sol Negro'' (1997) was produced by Celso Fonseca and had arrangements by Eduardo Souto Neto, and the participation of Djavan, Gilberto Gil, and Milton Nascimento. It was released on the Rykodisc label and was well received in the United States and Europe. ''The Times'' of London described Rodrigues as "... The new diva of Brazilian music". The album also received good reviews in ''Le Monde'' and the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador (English: ''Savior'') is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognized throughout the country and internationally for its cuisine, music and architecture. The African influence in many cultural aspects of the city makes it a center of Afro-Brazilian culture. As the first capital of Colonial Brazil, the city is one of the oldest in the Americas and one of the first planned cities in the world, having been established during the Renaissance period. Its foundation in 1549 by Tomé de Sousa took place on account of the implementation of the General Government of Brazil by the Portuguese Empire. Centralization as a capital, along with Portuguese colonization, were important factors in shaping the profile of the municipality, as were certain geographic characteristics. The construction of the city followed the uneven topography, initially with the formation of two leve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timbalada
Timbalada is an Afro-Brazilian musician group from Candeal, Salvador, Brazil. It was founded by drummer Carlinhos Brown, and the composer and percussionist Tony Mola . The musical style is between samba reggae and axé, with strong influences from African music. They are a highly popular group which regularly performs sold-out concerts throughout Brazil. The group is mostly known for its participation in the Brazilian Carnival each year in the streets of Salvador da Bahia. It also engages in social activism by working with needy children, providing education and drumming courses to help them with social integration. , '''', Retrieved on 14 December 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O Casamento De Gorete
O, or o, is the fifteenth letter and the fourth vowel letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''o'' (pronounced ), plural ''oes''. History Its graphic form has remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until today. The name of the Phoenician letter was '' ʿeyn'', meaning "eye", and indeed its shape originates simply as a drawing of a human eye (possibly inspired by the corresponding Egyptian hieroglyph, cf. Proto-Sinaitic script). Its original sound value was that of a consonant, probably , the sound represented by the cognate Arabic letter ع ''ʿayn''. The use of this Phoenician letter for a vowel sound is due to the early Greek alphabets, which adopted the letter as O "omicron" to represent the vowel . The letter was adopted with this value in the Old Italic alphabets, including the early Latin alphabet. In Greek, a variation of the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ó Paí, Ó
''Ó Paí, Ó'' (colloquial form of "''Olhe Para Isso, Olhe''", translated as ''Look At This, Look'') is a 2007 Brazilian drama film directed by Monique Gardenberg. It tells the story of cortiço residents in Pelourinho, the historical center of Salvador, Bahia on the last day of carnaval. Lacking money but not desire for amusement, they get by on creativity, irony, sensuality, and music. The film inspired a TV series, also named ''Ó Paí, Ó'', broadcast on Rede Globo. The 10-episode show premiered on October 31, 2008, and also stars Lázaro Ramos. Cast *Lázaro Ramos as Roque *Wagner Moura as Boca *Dira Paes as Psilene * Stênio Garcia as Seu Jerônimo *Luciana Souza as Dona Joana *Érico Brás as Reginaldo *Tânia Tôko as Neusão da Rocha *Emanuelle Araújo Emanuelle Araújo (born July 21, 1976) is a Brazilian actress, singer and songwriter. She became nationally known in 1999 as lead singer of '' Banda Eva'', where she stayed for only two and a half years until 2002. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drums And Gods
Drums and Gods is a 2001 German/Brazilian film directed by Georg Brintrup. Plot A Brazilian street boy, Antônio, wakes up early in the morning on the beach of Salvador (Bahia). At sunrise, he is overtaken by strange thoughts: The bible says that God created light even before the sun and the stars. Light, but not sunlight! Maybe the light is the light within our interior enlightenment. Nature's biggest catastrophe is when man began to think. However, before God created light, he said: “Let there be light!” So, before light there was the voice of God. A sound ... a big bang ... the sound of thunder ... rolling off a drum. Only this thunder had the power to create light. If it weren't for that sound from the depths, that primal noise, today man wouldn't be able to think. Antônio meets Valdyr, a blind black man who sees with his ears. The two become friends. Valdyr knows that man has lost his naturalness by thinking. Man gave a name to everything ... with words ... man gave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tieta Of Agreste
''Tieta of Agreste'' ( pt, Tieta do Agreste) is a 1996 Brazilian comedy film directed by Carlos Diegues. It is based on the novel '' Tieta'' by Jorge Amado. The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Sônia Braga as Antonieta "Tieta" Esteves Cantarelli * Marília Pêra as Perpétua Esteves Batista **Anna Cotrim as young Perpétua * Chico Anysio as Zé Esteves, the Tieta's father * Cláudia Abreu as Leonora Cantarelli * Zezé Motta as Carmosina "Carmô" * Jece Valadão as Commandant Dario * Harildo Deda as coronel Artur da Tapitanga * André Valli as Barbozinha * Heitor Martinez as Ricardo "Cardo" Esteves Batista * Noélia Marcondes as Tonha * Patrícia França as Imaculada and young Tieta * Daniel Filho as Mirko Stephano * Virginia Rodrigues Virgínia Rodrigues (born Salvador, Bahia, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Music Network
World Music Network is a UK-based record label specializing in world music. The World Music Network website features news, reviews, live music listings, and guide sections on world music. It also features an online "Battle of the Bands" competition. History Founded in 1994 by husband and wife team Phil Stanton and Colombian-born Sandra Alayón-Stanton, World Music Network consists of four record labels – Music Rough Guides, Riverboat Records, Introducing and Think Global. Music Rough Guides releases the Rough Guides CD compilations. Accolades include a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for Debashish Bhattacharya – who was also awarded the BBC Best Asian Artist award in 2008 – a WMCE Top Label award and more Songlines (magazine) 'Top of the World’ releases than any other independent world music label. World Music Network, along with Riverboat Records, was presented with the WOMEX Label Award in 2013. In 2019, Phil Stanton died following a lengthy battle with cance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin America
Latin America is the portion of the Americas comprising countries and regions where Romance languages—languages that derived from Latin—such as Spanish language in the Americas, Spanish, American Portuguese, Portuguese, and French language, French are predominantly spoken. The term is used for those places once ruled under the Spanish Empire, Spanish, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese, and French colonial empire#The Americas, French empires. Parts of the United States and Canada where Romance languages are primarily spoken are not usually included due to being collectively grouped as Anglo-America (an exception to this is Puerto Rico, which is almost always included within the definition of Latin America despite being a territories of the United States, territory of the United States). The term is broader than categories such as ''Hispanic America'', which specifically refers to Spanish-speaking countries; and ''Ibero-America'', which specifically refers to both Spanish and Portugue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
