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Olodum
Olodum is an Afro-Bahian percussion group and bloco afro founded in Salvador, Bahia, in 1979, creator of samba-reggae and known for recordings with Paul Simon and Michael Jackson.
Orquestra Frevo das Colinas
Orquestra Frevo das Colinas is a frevo orchestra from Garanhuns, Pernambuco, Brazil, a brass-and-percussion ensemble that played regional events for a decade before its 2023 festival debut.
Os Barões da Pisadinha
Os Barões da Pisadinha, also known as Barões da Pisadinha, are a Brazilian pisadinha duo formed in 2015 in Heliópolis, Bahia, credited as precursors of the genre.
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.
Os Incríveis
Os Incríveis is a Brazilian band formed in 1962 as The Clevers, among the most successful acts in Brazilian rock of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Os Mutantes
Os Mutantes are a Brazilian psychedelic rock band formed in São Paulo in 1966 by Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista, and Sérgio Dias, founders of Tropicalismo.
Os Valvulados
Os Valvulados are a Brazilian soul and black-music group from Garanhuns, Pernambuco, formed around 2005 and known for reinterpreting classics of Brazilian popular music, especially 1970s samba-funk.
Pagode
Pagode is a samba subgenre that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s from backyard parties, led by Fundo de Quintal and commercially expanded by Raça Negra's romantic pagode in the 1990s.
Papatinho
Papatinho is the stage name of Tiago da Cal Alves, a Brazilian record producer and DJ from Rio de Janeiro known for rap, trap, and funk.
Paulinho Boca de Cantor
Paulinho Boca de Cantor, born Paulo Roberto Figueredo de Oliveira in Bahia in 1946, is a Brazilian singer and composer, a founding vocalist of Novos Baianos.
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.
Pepeu Gomes
Pepeu Gomes, born Pedro Aníbal de Oliveira Gomes, is a Brazilian guitarist and composer who played in Novos Baianos before a hit solo career in the 1980s.
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.
Pixinguinha
Pixinguinha (1897–1973) was a Brazilian composer, flutist, and saxophonist from Rio de Janeiro called the father of choro, best known for 'Carinhoso' and declared Patron of Brazilian Popular Music.
Planet Hemp
Planet Hemp is a Brazilian rap-rock band formed in Rio de Janeiro in 1993, fronted by Marcelo D2, blending hip hop, rock, reggae, and samba with lyrics about cannabis legalization.
Plebe Rude
Plebe Rude is a Brazilian punk rock band formed in 1981 in Brasília, best known for its 1986 debut O Concreto Já Rachou and the anthem "Até Quando Esperar".
Prêmio da Música Brasileira
The Prêmio da Música Brasileira, today titled Prêmio BTG Pactual da Música Brasileira, is a Brazilian music award created in 1987 and based in Rio de Janeiro.
Projota
Projota (José Tiago Sabino Pereira, born 1986) is a Brazilian rapper from São Paulo whose 2016 hit Ela só quer paz brought rap into the mainstream.
Quinteto Violado
Quinteto Violado is a Pernambuco instrumental and vocal group formed in Recife in 1970, known for modernizing northeastern Brazilian music with jazz-influenced harmony and its celebrated arrangement of "Asa Branca".
Radio Mix FM (São Paulo)
Rádio Mix FM is a young- and adult-pop FM radio station in São Paulo on 106.3 MHz, owned by the Di Genio family's Objetivo education group.
Rádio Transamérica
Rádio Transamérica was a national Brazilian radio network founded by banker Aloysio de Andrade Faria, first broadcasting in Recife in 1976 and rebranded as TMC in 2025.
Raimundos (1994 debut)
Raimundos is the 1994 self-titled debut album by the Brasília band Raimundos, which fused forró with hardcore punk into forró-core, went gold, and launched the band nationally.
Rap carioca
Rap carioca is the rap and funk scene of Rio de Janeiro, rooted in the Miami-bass baile funk dances of the 1980s and best known for the crime-themed proibidão subgenre.
Rennan da Penha
Rennan da Penha (Rennan Santos da Silva) is a Brazilian funk carioca DJ from Rio de Janeiro, creator of the Baile da Gaiola street party.
Repentismo
Cantoria, also called repente or cantoria de viola, is a Northeastern Brazilian art of sung improvised poetry in which two cantadores alternate improvised stanzas over the viola.
RGE
RGE (Rádio Gravações Especializadas) is a Brazilian record label founded in São Paulo in 1947, known for bossa nova and MPB releases by Maysa and Chico Buarque.
Roberto Carlos (singer)
Roberto Carlos (born 1941, Cachoeiro do Itapemirim), Brazilian singer called O Rei, led the 1960s Jovem Guarda on TV Record, then became Latin music's best-selling romantic artist with over 120 million records, a Grammy, and an annual Globo Christmas special since 1974.
Ronnie Von
Ronnie Von, stage name of Ronaldo Lindenberg Cintra Nogueira, is a Brazilian singer and television presenter born in 1944, a pioneer of Brazilian psychedelic rock whose TV Record show launched Os Mutantes.
Roupa Nova
Roupa Nova is a Brazilian pop group from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 1980, known for close vocal harmonies and hits like "Sapato velho" and "Whisky a Go Go".
RPM (Brazilian band)
RPM, short for Revoluções Por Minuto, was a Brazilian new wave band from São Paulo, at its 1986 peak the most successful rock band in Brazil.