Samba band information

A Samba band or samba is a musical ensemble that plays samba music. Samba styled music originates from Brazil. The rhythm section of a samba band consisting...

Samba (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɐ̃bɐ] ) is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba)...

the word is also used for a form of Brazilian samba band, the percussion band or rhythm section of a Samba School.[citation needed] It might also mean battery...

"Samba pa ti" is an instrumental by Latin rock band Santana, from their 1970 album, Abraxas. In English, the title means "Samba for You." It was released...

A samba school (Portuguese: Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds...

Samba-reggae is a music genre from Bahia, Brazil. Samba reggae, as its name suggests, was originally derived as a blend of Brazilian samba with Jamaican...

Quintal or simply Fundo de Quintal (Backyard Group, roughly) is a Brazilian Samba band formed in Rio de Janeiro at the end of the 1970s. The founding members...

of whistles. The apito de samba ("samba whistle") is used during performances of samba. In a samba school, the apito de samba plays a crucial role because...

Samba rock (also known as samba soul, samba funk, and sambalanço) is a Brazilian dance culture and music genre that fuses samba with rock, soul, and funk...

Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ) is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It...

The RoR bands are often referred to as the "samba bands", although many bands incorporate instruments and rhythms from outside of the samba genre. RoR...

including samba, samba-reggae, axé, etc., while in Rio there is the multitude of samba styles: the "samba-enredo", the "samba de bloco", the "samba de embalo"...

"Disco Samba" is a 1977 single by the Belgian band Two Man Sound. The track is a medley of songs by Brazilian artists like Jorge Ben, Edu Lobo, Jackson...

adornments from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed...

Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova...

Samba Mapangala is a Congolese singer and bandleader who has been based in Kenya for most of his five-decade musical career, most notably there creating...

Göteborg, Hammarby supporters attracted much attention for bringing a live samba band to the stands to accompany their chants, inspired by supporters in South...

"Samba de uma Nota Só", known in English as "One Note Samba", is a bossa nova and jazz standard song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese lyrics...

for Best Samba/Pagode Album Samba carioca torna-se patrimônio histórico (in Portuguese) Samba Pagode history Samba & Pagode band/history Samba & Pagode...

song was written by Marins, and performed by Edson Lopes and Brazilian samba band Titulares do Ritmo. A story about a local doll maker who is very popular...

specifically calling itself "Tactical Frivolity", which consisted of a Samba band plus thirteen women from Yorkshire dressed as pink fairies. Ten months...

founded by the percussionist Neguinho do Samba. Olodum is widely credited with developing the music style known as samba reggae and for its active participation...

and leader of Brazilian All Stars, Brazilian Express, and the New York Samba Band. He was a teacher at the Drummers Collective and wrote an instructional...