Rob: Hello Im Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. And today we're going to talk about Monica Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer: (Samba beat sounds) Rob: Brazilian music! Ah the samba! And I'm joined today by Grace, from Brazil. Hi Grace. Grace: Hi Rob. Can

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Luiz Gonzaga you can compare him with Bob Marley in reggae, because he really did the melting of the style, you know. And it became very well known because he recorded it, he played it on the radio in the 40s, / 50s, so he came up with the new rhythm

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This is the story of a country whose music has seduced the outside world and taken on an importance that goes far beyond entertainments. You want to learn about Brazilian history without going through the books? You can just listen to the music and y

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The samba rhythm developed from percussion styles used in Candomble, an African influenced religion which was banned in the slave era. In Candomble ceremonies, drummers call down different gods, or orixas who are said to act as guides and guardians f

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In Rio, African rhythms began to mix with European styles. And it was at the house of a Candomble practitioner, a priestess named Tia Ciata, Auntie Ciata, that the first song widely recognized as Carioca samba, samba from Rio, was performed in 1916.

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Racial discrimination was now banned in Brazil, but prejudice and the belief in white supremacy was still widespread. So there was outrage in the press that black musicians like Pixinguinha should be allowed to represent Brazil when he and his band O

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Samba and Choro both started out as the homegrown musical styles of the black workers and migrants whod moved to Rio. The songs of the early Samba singers dealt with the realities of everyday life in the city. In the early days, musicians faced not o

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The man who transformed Samba was President Getlio Vargas, who seized power with military help in 1930. Vargas controlled Brazil for 18 years, first as a dictator and later as a democratically elected president. He was both an authoritarian and a pop

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Samba, of course, was mixed race music, with its roots in both Africa and Europe, and promoting samba suited / the Vargas policy of encouraging Brazilian unity by celebrating ethnic integration. And yet throughout the 1930s, Vargas continued to devel

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Dorival Caymmi, who was photographed with Vargas, became sambas first celebrated solo singer-songwriter. He played guitar in a very peculiar way and he was the first one to be a singer-composer, guitarist like, you know, Bob Dylan. He was a very good

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Some said she wasn't a true Brazilian, because she was born in Portugal. But Carmen Miranda conquered Brazil during the 30s and then moved on to the States. Her songs came from the finest writers of the days, including Dorival Caymmi and Ary Barroso,

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The unlikely duo of Carmen Miranda and President Vargas had not always found favor within Brazil for their music ideas. But between them, they transformed the international image of Brazil and the Rio music scene by promoting samba and carnival. Duri

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President Vargas gave Rio the Carnival for which the city became world-famous, but less than two years after his death, a new form of samba emerged that reflected a new political era in Brazil and would bring Rio even more international exposure and

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I would say bossa nova is a kind of soft samba, maybe played a little bit slower, just with the guitars, simpler, and very light singing, soft singing, and soft guitars doing the rhythm. Not a lot of drums like the big samba schools, maybe just a few

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It is a true story, you know, he used to play his to, to study his guitar and he would study the part of the thumb like this, ting, ting, he would go like that. The thing is there was a cat watching that. And poor cat was justand he would look at the

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Tom Jobim wrote many of his songs here in the countryside outside Rio. Jobim lived and worked in the house that his son and grandson are now restoring. He studied a lot Chopin, Debussy, Brahms also. He liked to wake up very early. And hes in this hou

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He was the best lyricist. He never made a mistake with a song of mine. And he would come later with the perfect lyric for the song. He was very successful with women and he was not exactly a good-looking man. He was fat, short, bald. But women, I've

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And in April 1962, the two of them released Jazz Samba, reworking Joao Giilberto and Jobim songs like Desafinado. Remarkably for a jazz album, it became a best-seller and stayed in the American charts for a quite astonishing 70 weeks. Bossa nova sudd

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I don't know. In Brazil they said it was a big mess. But I think it was important there. And the most important thing is that many of the musicians / went there to play in the concert. They stayed there and then they began to work around, like Oscar

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今天罗伯和格蕾斯讨论的话题是巴西的音乐.... Rob: Hello Im Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. And today we're going to talk about Monica Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer: (Samba beat sounds) Rob: Brazilian music! Ah the samba! And I'm jo

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