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Alcione
Alcione, also known as Alcione Nazaré, is a Brazilian samba singer born in 1947 in São Luís, Maranhão, best known for the 1975 hit "Não Deixe o Samba Morrer".
Art Popular
Art Popular is a pagode group from São Paulo, Brazil, that rose with the 1990s romantic pagode wave, selling over 1 million copies of Samba Pop Brasil (1998).
Bezerra da Silva
Bezerra da Silva, stage name of José Bezerra da Silva (1927–2005), was a Brazilian singer and composer from Recife who became the leading figure of samba malandro.
Bokaloka
Bokaloka is a Brazilian pagode group from Rio de Janeiro, formed in the mid-1990s as Água na Boca, known for "Não Pedi Pra Me Apaixonar" and "Shortinho Saint-Tropez".
Cacique de Ramos
Cacique de Ramos, formally the Grêmio Recreativo Cacique de Ramos, is a carnival bloco and samba venue in Rio de Janeiro's Olaria neighborhood, founded in 1961.
Candeia
Candeia, full name Antônio Candeia Filho (1935–1978), was a Brazilian samba composer and singer from Rio de Janeiro who led the Portela samba school and founded the Quilombo.
Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda (Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, 1909-1955), Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer and Hollywood actress, the 'Brazilian Bombshell'; top US-paid woman of 1945 and baiana fruit-hat icon, memorialized by Rio's Museu Carmen Miranda.
Clementina de Jesus
Clementina de Jesus was a Brazilian folk singer from Rio de Janeiro who recorded jongo and samba from oral tradition, discovered in 1963 at about age 63.
Coco Raízes de Arcoverde
Coco Raízes de Arcoverde, also billed as Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde, is a Brazilian samba de coco group formed in Arcoverde, Pernambuco, in 1992.
Elza Soares
Elza Soares (Elza Gomes da Conceição Soares, 1930–2022) was a Brazilian singer from Rio de Janeiro who recorded 35 albums from 1960 to 2021, winning BBC singer of the millennium.
Jorge Aragão
Jorge Aragão (Jorge Aragão da Cruz, born 1949) is a Brazilian samba singer-composer, a founding member of Fundo de Quintal and a central figure of pagode.
Os Garotin
Os Garotin is a Brazilian trio from São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, blending samba with soul and R&B; its 2024 debut album won a Latin Grammy.
Paulinho da Viola
Paulinho da Viola, stage name of Paulo César Batista de Faria (born 1942), is a Brazilian composer and singer, a leading exponent of traditional samba and choro since the 1960s.
Péricles (musician)
Péricles is a Brazilian pagode singer and composer who fronted Exaltasamba from 1986 to 2012, selling more than 15 million records, and has pursued a solo career since.
Seu Jorge
Seu Jorge (Jorge Mário da Silva, born 1970) is a Brazilian samba-rock singer, songwriter, and actor from Belford Roxo, Rio de Janeiro. Known for City of God, Portuguese Bowie covers in The Life Aquatic, and albums Samba Esporte Fino and The Other Side.
Teresa Cristina
Teresa Cristina, born 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian samba singer and composer who led the Lapa samba revival from the late 1990s.
Trio Mocotó
Trio Mocotó is a Brazilian instrumental trio formed in 1968 at São Paulo's Jogral nightclub, regarded as the matrix of samba-rock, which it developed as Jorge Ben's backing band.
Turma do Pagode
Turma do Pagode is an eight-member pagode group from the Zona Norte of São Paulo, formed in 1994 and known for the hits "Lancinho" and "Camisa 10".