Her dance-heavy and sex-positive performance included a capoeira battle, risqué imagery, a celebration of favela funk and more. By Isabela Raygoza Associate Editor, Billboard Español Amid a ...

Funk Carioca is dirty dancing at its dirtiest, and lyrics at the height of vulgarity. It can be heard throughout the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, all day and night long, from cars, houses, and bailes ...

Gabriela Vallim reflects on the booming interest in baile funk in the UK, and explains the complex social history behind the Brazilian sound and why it's important to recognise its impact as a tool of ...

Anitta had never headlined her own concert in the States before Wednesday night’s sold-out show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Yet it was hard to believe it was her first time after witnessing the ...

L ast november, just before the Latin Grammys in Seville, Spain, a crowd huddled in front of a club called Sala Cosmos, where the Brazilian superstar Anitta was co-hosting a massive party with ...

Rio das Pedras, Brazil – Seven white and silver mini-buses pull up to a two-storey warehouse, one after the other. Smoking on the sidewalk of the pothole-ridden road, local teenagers and adults watch, ...

It was goodbye for one of soccer's most adored national teams. Brazil, five-time World Cup winners, lost to Croatia in the quarterfinals on Friday. Despite the disappointment, the "Joga Bonito" team ...

Brazil has long been a laboratory for sonic innovation, synthesizing the unique musical traditions of the country’s diverse population. At the cutting edge is baile funk, a sound that stems back ...

High up in a crudely constructed bare-concrete home in the favela of Mangueira, a Funk Carioca beat crackles from tinny smartphone speakers. It's the rhythm of Rio de Janeiro's vibrant hillside ...

Once the rage in Rocinha, Rio’s biggest slum, hardcore funk dance parties have become tamer since police reasserted control in November after expelling drug barons who ruled the area for 30 years.

If you know one thing about Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” it’s that the single borrows from both rap and country. But in recent months, artists have been drawing less obvious connections between the ...