Classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

• Alberto Nepomuceno
  Alberto Nepomuceno
  Alberto Nepomuceno was a Brazilian composer and conductorAlberto Nepomuceno was born in city of Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil. He was the son of Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno and Maria Virginia de Oliveira Paiva...
  
  , (1864–1920), classical musician and composer
• Camargo Guarnieri
  Camargo Guarnieri
  Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was a Brazilian composer.-Name:He was registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious and subject to puns. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed...
  
  , (1907–1993), classical musician and composer
• Carlos Gomes
  Antônio Carlos Gomes
  Antônio Carlos Gomes was the first New World composer whose work was accepted by Europe.-Life:He was born in Campinas, Brazil, son of Maestro Manuel José Gomes and Fabiana Maria Jaguari Cardoso....
  
  , (1836–1896), classical musician and composer
• César Guerra-Peixe
  César Guerra-Peixe
  César Guerra-Peixe was a Brazilian violinist and composer.Guerra-Peixe was born in Petrópolis, son of Portuguese immigrants with gypsy origins. As a composer he wrote influenced by Hans-Joachim Koellreutter several works using straight twelve-tone technique, but switched in 1949 to adapt...
  
  , (1914–1993), classical musician and composer
• Cláudio Santoro
  Cláudio Santoro
  Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro was an internationally renowned Brazilian composer and violinist.-Early life:...
  
  , (1919–1989), classical musician and composer
• Elias Álvares Lobo
  Elias Álvares Lobo
  Elias Álvares Lobo was a Brazilian composer.Lobo was born at Itu. He wrote the first Brazilian opera in the Portuguese language, A Noite de São João . -References:...
  
   (1834–1901), classical musician and composer
• Francisco Manuel da Silva,1795–1865), classical musician and composer
• Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Paulo Mignone is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos...
  
   (1897–1986), classical composer and conductor
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
  , (1887–1959), classical musician and composer
• Jorge Antunes, (1942-alive), classical musician and composer
• José Carlos Amaral Vieira
  José Carlos Amaral Vieira
  José Carlos Amaral Vieira is a Brazilian composer, pianist, and musicologist. He has performed solo since he was eight years old and studied in Europe from 1965 to 1976. He returned to Brazil in 1977 and has since composed for several genres there.-Biography:José Carlos Amaral Vieira was born in...
  
   (1952-alive), classical musician, pianist and composer
• José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, (1746–1805), classical musician and composer
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia
  José Maurício Nunes Garcia
  José Maurício Nunes Garcia was a Brazilian classical composer, one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas....
  
  , (1767–1830), classical musician and composer
• Leopoldo Miguez
  Leopoldo Miguez
  Leopoldo Miguez was a Brazilian composer.Born in Niterói, Miguez studied at conservatories in Paris. He was known as a champion of the music of Richard Wagner. He also directed the "Instituto Nacional de Musica." He also wrote the music for Brazil's Hymn for the Proclamation of the Republic. He...
  
  , (1850–1902), classical musician and composer
• Marlos Nobre
  Marlos Nobre
  Marlos Nobre is a Brazilian composer. He has received commissions from numerous institutions, including the Ministry of Culture in Spain, the Free University of Music of São Paulo, the Neuchâtel Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, The Apollon Foundation in Bremen, Germany and the Maracaibo Music...
  
  , (1939-alive), classical musician and composer
• Osvaldo Lacerda
  Osvaldo Lacerda
  Osvaldo Lacerda ) is a Brazilian composer. He began piano study at nine, and in 1963, he became the first Brazilian composer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship.-References:...
  
  , (1927-alive), classical musician and composer
• Demônios da Garoa
  Demônios da Garoa
  Demonios da Garoa are a São Paulo-based Brazilian samba group. Having existed for over sixty years, they are one of the most famous practitioners of samba paulista, a notable regional style distinct to São Paulo...
  
  , (1940-some integrants are alive), classical musicians

Samba

Samba

Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...

• Adoniran Barbosa
  Adoniran Barbosa
  Adoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato , was a famous Brazilian traditional samba singer and composer.-Early years:...
  
   (1912–1982) singer and composer
• Alcione Nazaré, (1947-) singer
• Ary Barroso
  Ary Barroso
  Ary Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV...
  
  , (1903–1964) singer and composer
• Beth Carvalho
  Beth Carvalho
  Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho is a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer.-Biography:...
  
  , (1946-) singer
• Braguinha
  Braguinha (composer)
  Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga , commonly known as Braguinha or João de Barro , was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived all his life...
  
  , (1907–2006) singer and composer
• Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
  , (1909–1955) singer, dancer, actress
• Cartola
  Cartola
  Angenor de Oliveira, known as Cartola , was a Brazilian singer, composer and poet considered to be a major figure in the development of samba.Cartola composed, alone or with partners, more than 500 songs.-Biography:...
  
  , (1908–1980) singer and composer
• Clara Nunes
  Clara Nunes
  Clara Nunes; August 12, 1943 – April 2, 1983) was a samba singer, regarded as one of the greatest of her generation. She became the first female singer in Brazil to sell over 100,000 copies, and her achievements in the samba genre earned her the title of "Queen of Samba".She had enormous...
  
  , (1943–1983) singer and composer
• Edson Ribeiro
  Édson Ribeiro
  Édson Luciano Ribeiro is a Brazilian sprinter competing mostly in 100 metres. He has been successful on regional level, and won two Olympic medals with the Brazilian 4 x 100 metres relay team....
  
  , (1967-) musician, footballer and composer
• Elizeth Cardoso, (1920–1990) singer
• Elza Soares
  Elza Soares
  Elza Soares is a Brazilian samba singer. She was married to Brazilian football player Garrincha.Born and raised in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Soares took part in a singing contest presented by the renowned Brazilian musician Ary Barroso, and received the highest marks. In the late 1950s, Soares...
  
  , (1937-) singer
• Fernanda Porto
  Fernanda Porto
  Fernanda Porto, or Maria Fernanda Dutra Clemente , is a Brazilian singer of Drum 'n' Bossa, a genre that is the combination of electronic music and bossa nova in allusion to the Drum 'n' Bass genre....
  
  , (1965-) singer and composer
• Jamelão
  Jamelão
  José Bispo Clementino dos Santos was a Brazilian samba singer known as Jamelão . He began in music as a tamborim player, but later became known as the official singer at samba school Mangueira's carnaval parades, performing in every Carnaval from 1949 to 2006...
  
  , (1913–2008) singer
• João Nogueira
  João Nogueira
  João Nogueira was a Brazilian singer and composer, famous for his samba compositions. He was born in Rio de Janeiro....
  
  , (1941–2000) singer and composer
• Jorge Aragão
  Jorge Aragão
  Jorge Aragão , birth name Jorge Aragão da Cruz) is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter, working in the genres of samba and pagode. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and plays the guitar, surdo, cavaco and banjo, among other instruments...
  
  , (1949-) singer and composer
• Noel Rosa
  Noel Rosa
  Noel de Medeiros Rosa was a Brazilian songwriter, singer, and guitar/banjo player. One of the greatest names in Brazilian popular music, Noel gave a new twist to samba, combining its Afro-Brazilian roots with a more urban, witty language and making it a vehicle for ironic social commentary.Noel...
  
  , (1910–1937) singer and composer
• Paulinho da Viola
  Paulinho da Viola
  Paulinho da Viola is a Brazilian sambista, singer/songwriter, guitar, cavaquinho and mandolin player, known for his sophisticated harmonies and soft, gentle singing voice.-Biography:...
  
  , (1942-) singer and composer
• Pixinguinha
  Pixinguinha
  Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., better known as Pixinguinha was a composer, arranger, flautist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. Pixinguinha is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre of music known as choro...
  
  , (1897–1973) composer
• Grupo Revelação, (1991-) singer and composer band
• Seu Jorge
  Seu Jorge
  Seu Jorge is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter and actor. Born Jorge Mário da Silva, he was raised in a favela in the city of Belford Roxo in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro state. He is considered by his fans a renewer of Brazilian pop samba...
  
  , (1970-) singer and composer
• Zeca Pagodinho
  Zeca Pagodinho
  Zeca Pagodinho is a Brazilian singer/songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode.-Biography:...
  
  , (1959-) singer and composer

Choro

Choro

Choro , traditionally called chorinho , is a Brazilian popular music instrumental style. Its origins are in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. In spite of the name, the style often has a fast and happy rhythm, characterized by virtuosity, improvisation, subtile modulations and full of syncopation and...

• Chiquinha Gonzaga
  Chiquinha Gonzaga
  Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor....
  
  , (1847–1935) conductor and composer
• Ernesto Nazareth
  Ernesto Nazareth
  Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative tango and Choro compositions.Ernesto Nazareth was born in Rio de Janeiro, one of five children. His mother, Carolina da Cunha gave him his first piano lessons...
  
  , (1863–1934), composer
• Jacob do Bandolim
  Jacob do Bandolim
  Jacob do Bandolim was a Brazilian composer and musician. Born Jacob Pick Bittencourt from a Jewish mother and Brazilian father in Rio de Janeiro, his stage name means "Mandolin Jacob", after the instrument he played....
  
  , composer and musician
• Nonato Luiz
  Nonato Luiz
  Nonato Luiz is a Brazilian guitarist, born in Lavras da Mangabeira, Ceará, in northeastern Brazil.-Biography:He began playing music at the age of four. At 15 he was second violin of the Fortaleza Symphony Orchestra. During that time, juggling popular and classical music, he opted for the guitar as...
  
  , composer and musician
• Pixinguinha
  Pixinguinha
  Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., better known as Pixinguinha was a composer, arranger, flautist and saxophonist born in Rio de Janeiro. Pixinguinha is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers of popular music, particularly within the genre of music known as choro...
  
  , composer and musician
• Waldir Azevedo, composer and musician

Bossa Nova

Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music. Bossa nova acquired a large following in the 1960s, initially consisting of young musicians and college students...

• Antonio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Jobim
  Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim , also known as Tom Jobim , was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within...
  
  , (1927–1994), composer and pianist
• Astrud Gilberto
  Astrud Gilberto
  Astrud Gilberto is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She is well known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".-Biography:...
  
  , singer
• Baden Powell de Aquino
  Baden Powell de Aquino
  Baden Powell de Aquino usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the greatest Brazilian guitarists. He explored the instrument to its utmost limits, playing it in a distinctive, unique manner, incorporating virtuoso classical techniques together with popular harmony and swing...
  
  , guitarist and composer
• Dolores Duran
  Dolores Duran
  Dolores Duran was a Brazilian singer and composer.Adiléia Silva da Rocha debuted at age 10 on the radio. Two years later, when her father died, she started to work on the television, too...
  
  , (1930–1959) female singer and composer
• Carlos Lyra
  Carlos Lyra
  Carlos Lyra is a Brazilian singer and composer of numerous bossa nova and Música Popular Brasileira classics. He was born on May 11, 1939. Along with Roberto Menescal, he was a primary figure of the younger generation of bossa nova musicians who closely followed the inception of the style by João...
  
  , composer
• João Gilberto
  João Gilberto
  João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto , is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. His seminal recordings, including many songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre of Bossa nova in the late 1950s.-Biography:From an early age, music...
  
  , guitarist, composer and singer
• Nara Leão
  Nara Leão
  Nara Lofego Leão was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of Bye Bye Brasil....
  
  , singer
• Ithamara Koorax
  Ithamara Koorax
  Ithamara Koorax is a popular Brazilian pop-jazz singer.-Discography:*2009 - Bim Bom - The Complete João Gilberto Songbook - Motéma Music*2007 - Brazilian Butterfly - IRMA...
  
  , singer
• Roberto Menescal
  Roberto Menescal
  Roberto Menescal is a Brazilian jazz guitarist important to the founding of bossa nova. In many of his songs there are references to the sea. He is also known for work with Carlos Lyra. Menescal has performed in a variety of Latin music mediums, including Brazilian pop, Música Popular Brasileira,...
  
  , singer
• Sérgio Mendes
  Sergio Mendes
  Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
  
  , pianist and arranger
• Toquinho
  Toquinho
  Antônio Pecci Filho , better known as Toquinho , is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well-known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes.-Childhood and musical studies:...
  
  , guitarist, singer and composer
• Vinícius de Moraes
  Vinicius de Moraes
  Marcus Vinicius de Moraes , known as Vinicius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinho , was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes, he was a seminal figure in contemporary Brazilian music...
  
  , diplomat, poet, singer and composer
• Bebel Gilberto
  Bebel Gilberto
  Bebel Gilberto is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque...
  
  , singer
• Paulinho Nogueira
  Paulinho Nogueira
  Paulinho Nogueira , was a Brazilian guitarist, composer and singer. He was an eclectic composer and his influences ranging from Bossa Nova to Bach....
  
  , (1929–2003), classical musician, guitarist, and composer
• Maysa, (1936–1977), singer and composer
• Márcio Faraco
  Márcio Faraco
  Márcio Faraco is a Brazilian born singer, composer, producer and guitar player. After many years of living and working in Brazil, he decided to leave the country for Paris, France....
  
  , expatriate, singer, guitarist, composer
• Celso Fonseca
  Celso Fonseca
  Celso Fonseca is a Brazilian guitarist and singer. He is noted for samba and Música Popular Brasileira.He began on guitar at age 12 and by 19 dedicated himself to music as a profession. He counts Baden Powell de Aquino as an influence and has worked with Gilberto Gil, Marisa Monte, Bebel Gilberto...
  
  , producer, singer, songwriter, guitarist
• Vinicius Cantuária
  Vinicius Cantuária
  Vinicius Cantuária is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and percussionist. He is associated with Bossa nova and Brazilian jazz. Originally from the Amazonian city of Manaus, Cantuária grew up in Rio and relocated to New York City in the mid-1990s...
  
  , singer, songwriter, guitarist
• Walter Wanderley, organist and arranger

Forró

Forró

Forró is a kind of Northeastern Brazilian dance as well as a word used to denote the different genres of music which accompanies the dance. Both are much in evidence during the annual Festa Junina , a part of Brazilian traditional culture which celebrates some Catholic saints...

• Luiz Gonzaga
  Luiz Gonzaga
  Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco , he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country...
  
  , singer and composer
• Elba Ramalho
  Elba ramalho
  Elba Ramalho, is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called "The Queen of Forró"....
  
  , singer
• Gonzaguinha
  Gonzaguinha
  Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Júnior , better known as Gonzaguinha, was a noted Brazilian singer and composer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and he was the son of Luiz Gonzaga , the "king of baião"...
  
  , singer and composer
• Sivuca
  Sivuca
  Severino Dias de Oliveirawas a Brazilian accordionist and guitarist.In addition to in his home state of Paraíba, in Recife, and in Rio de Janeiro,...
  
  , accordionist
• Falamansa, forró and xote group

Frevo

Frevo

Frevo is a wide range of musical styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, all of which are traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word frevo is said to come from frever, a misspeaking of the Portuguese word ferver . It is said that the sound of the frevo will make...

• Alceu Valença
  Alceu Valença
  Alceu Valença is a Brazilian composer, writer, performer, actor, and poet.Alceu Valenca was born in countryside Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil...
  
  , singer and composer
• Zé Ramalho
  Zé Ramalho
  Zé Ramalho is a Brazilian composer and performer. Zé Ramalho has collaborated with various major Brazilian musicians, including Vanusa, Geraldo Azevedo and Alceu Valença to name a few...
  
  , singer and composer
• Elba Ramalho
  Elba ramalho
  Elba Ramalho, is a Brazilian songwriter, performer, poet and actress. She is sometimes called "The Queen of Forró"....
  
  , singer

Mangue Beat

Mangue Bit

The mangue bit or mangue beat movement was a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economical stagnation of the city...

• Chico Science
  Chico Science
  Francisco de Assis França , better known as Chico Science, was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the Mangue Beat cultural movement...
  
  , singer and composer
• Fred 04
  Fred 04
  Fred 04 is the leader, singer, guitarist and Cavaquinho player of Brazilian band Mundo Livre S/A. He is the co-author, along with DJ Renato L, of the Mangue Bit manifesto, "Caranguejos Com Cérebros" . He has a degree in journalism...
  
  , singer and composer

MPB

Música Popular Brasileira

Música Popular Brasileira or MPB designates a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary...

, Tropicalismo

Tropicalismo

Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s and encompassed theatre, poetry, and music, among other forms. Tropicália was influenced by poesia concreta , a genre of Brazilian avant-garde poetry embodied in the works of Augusto de Campos, Haroldo...

• Adriana Calcanhotto
  Adriana Calcanhotto
  Adriana Calcanhotto is a Brazilian singer/composer. Her melancholic songs are often categorized as belonging to the MPB genre...
  
  , singer and composer
• Ana Carolina
  Ana Carolina
  Ana Carolina Sousa is a Brazilian singer, composer, and musician.-Career:Carolina has a contralto vocal range. Her musical influence comes from the crib, her grandmother used to sing on the radio, and her great aunt and uncle played percussion, piano, cello, and violin...
  
  , singer and composer
• Beto Guedes
  Beto Guedes
  Alberto de Castro Guedes, , is a famous guitar player, singer and brazilian songwriter.-Biography:Beto Guedes has been playing playing in bands since he was a teenage...
  
   , singer, violinist and composer
• Caetano Veloso
  Caetano Veloso
  Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
  
  , (1942-), singer and composer
• Cazuza
  Cazuza
  Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza was a Brazilian composer and singer, born in Rio de Janeiro. Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music....
  
  , (1958–1990), singer and composer
• Chico Buarque
  Chico Buarque
  Francisco Buarque de Hollanda , popularly known as Chico Buarque , is a singer, guitarist, composer, dramatist, writer and poet...
  
  , singer and composer
• Chico César
  Chico César
  Chico César is a Brazilian singer-composer-songwriter.-Albums:* Aos Vivos * Cuzcuz-Clã* Beleza Mano * Mama Mundi * Respeitem meus cabelos, brancos...
  
  , singer and composer
• Damião Experiença
  Damião Experiença
  Damião Ferreira da Cruz, known better as Damião Experiênça is a Brazilian guitarist, singer and harmonica player.-Discography:* 1974 : Planeta Lamma*69*4c 1308 ou *Damião Experiença no Planeta Roça...
  
  , guitarist and harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
   player
• Djavan
  Djavan
  Djavan is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, Djavan combines traditional Brazilian rhythms with popular music drawn from the Americas, Europe and Africa. He can arguably be categorized in any of the following musical genres: Música Popular Brasileira , samba, or Latin dance...
  
  , singer and composer
• Dorival Caymmi
  Dorival Caymmi
  Dorival Caymmi was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933...
  
  , singer and composer
• Dudu Tucci
  Dudu Tucci
  Dudu Tucci is a Brazilian percussionist, singer and composer.Dudu Tucci grew up in a family with a musical background, and was already playing drums at very young age at umbanda-ceremonies. He studied classical percussion, flute and musicology at Brooklin Paulista Conservatory in São Paulo...
  
  , singer, composer and percussionist
• Ed Motta
  Ed Motta
  Ed Motta , is a Brazilian MPB, rock, soul music, funk and jazz musician. He is nephew of late Brazilian singer Tim Maia....
  
  , (1971-), funk/rock/eletronic frontman, singer and composer
• Elis Regina
  Elis Regina
  Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...
  
  , (1945–1982), singer
• Elza Soares
  Elza Soares
  Elza Soares is a Brazilian samba singer. She was married to Brazilian football player Garrincha.Born and raised in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Soares took part in a singing contest presented by the renowned Brazilian musician Ary Barroso, and received the highest marks. In the late 1950s, Soares...
  
  , singer and composer
• Flavio Rodrigues
  Flavio Rodrigues
  Flávio Augusto Rodrigues Marques - Musician, Composer, Musical Director and Arranger - Sao Paulo, Brazil . Brazilian musician specialized in flamenco music. He is current living in Madrid....
  
  , singer, musician, composer and guitarist
• Gal Costa
  Gal Costa
  Gal Costa is a Brazilian singer of popular music.-Early life:...
  
   (1945-), singer
• Gilberto Gil
  Gilberto Gil
  Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...
  
  , (1942-), singer and composer
• Gonzaguinha
  Gonzaguinha
  Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Júnior , better known as Gonzaguinha, was a noted Brazilian singer and composer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and he was the son of Luiz Gonzaga , the "king of baião"...
  
  , singer and composer
• Heraldo do Monte
  Heraldo do Monte
  Heraldo do Monte is a Brazilian guitar player. Since the 1980s he has released and participated with albums by Brazilian artists.In 1966 Quarteto Novo , released one album and launched the careers of its members.He has played on albums by Gilberto Gil, Hermeto Pascoal and others His first...
  
  , guitarists, member of Quarteto Novo (Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
  
  , Hermeto Pascoal
  Hermeto Pascoal
  Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and...
  
  , Theo de Barros
  Théo de Barros
  Teófilo Augusto de Barros Neto known as Theo de Barros is a Brazilian composer. Since the 1960s he has released and participated with albums by Brazilian artists....
  
  )
• Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...
  
  , singer, songwriters and composer
• Jair Oliveira
  Jair Oliveira
  Jair Rodrigues M. Oliveira is a Brazilian composer, singer and producer. He is the son of Brazilian musician Jair Rodrigues and brother to singer Luciana Mello....
  
  , singer and composer
• Jorge Benjor, singer and composer
• Kátya Chamma
  Kátya Chamma
  Kátya Pujals Chamma is a Brazilian composer, singer, poet, writer and cultural producer.Chamma was born in Brasilia. From the first generation of Brasilia's artists, she acted in the main theaters, shows and events. She won some music festivals, like the 1° Brasilias' Open MPB Festival...
  
  , composer, singer, poet and writer
• Lenine, singer and composer
• Luciana Mello
  Luciana Mello
  Luciana Mello is a Brazilian singer and professional dancer.Mello began her musical training early in life, taking voice and dance lessons. As a child, she sang in choirs and later performed in musicals...
  
  , singer and composer
• Luiz Melodia
  Luiz Melodia
  Luiz Melodia, born Luiz Carlos dos Santos is a Brazilian composer and singer of MPB.He started his musical career in 1963 with singer Mizinho, and worked as a typographer, salesman and musician in nightclubs. In 1964 he had formed the groupd called "Os Instantâneos", with Manoel, Nazareno and...
  
  , singer and composer
• Maria Bethânia
  Maria Bethânia
  Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso , better known as Maria Bethânia , is a singer and sister of Caetano Veloso. She started her career in Rio de Janeiro in 1964 with the show "Opinião"...
  
   (1946-), singer
• Maria Rita
  Maria Rita
  Maria Rita |São Paulo]], Brazil) is the performance name of Maria Rita Mariano, a Brazilian singer. She is the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano and music producer João Marcelo Bôscoli. Her...
  
  , singer
• Marina Lima
  Marina Lima
  Marina Correia Lima is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She is a prominent female pioneer of Brazilian rock music.-Career:From the age of five to twelve, Marina lived in the United States and learned to read first in English and then in Portuguese. She gained attention in 1977 when popular...
  
  , singer and composer
• Marisa Monte
  Marisa Monte
  Marisa de Azevedo Monte is a Brazilian popular singer. As of 2011, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide.- Biography :...
  
  , singer and composer
• Maysa Matarazzo
  Maysa Matarazzo
  Maysa Figueira Monjardim , better known as Maysa Matarazzo or simply Maysa, daughter of Alcibíades Guaraná Monjardim and wife Inah Figueira and paternal granddaughter of Manuel Silvino Monjardim and wife Ursulina Guaraná, was a singer, composer, and actress from Brazil...
  
  , singer
• Milton Nascimento
  Milton Nascimento
  -Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
  
  , singer and composer
• Mônica da Silva
  Mônica da Silva
  Mônica da Silva is a Brazilian/American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. She is best known for her multi-lingual music compositions that span five languages - English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and French. Mônica grew up between the U.S. and Belém, Brazil, a city on the Amazon...
  
  , singer and composer
• Nelio Guerson and Carlos Guerson, singers, songwriters
• Nelson Ned
  Nelson Ned
  Nelson Ned is a famous Brazilian singer from Ubá, Minas Gerais. Nelson built a solid career as a singer and composer of sentimental, suffering songs, rising to popularity in Brazil and Latin America in 1969 and becoming known internationally, especially in Portugal, France and Spain...
  
  , singer
• Otacílio Melgaço, singer, composer, multi-instrumentist
• Paula Lima
  Paula Lima
  Paula Lima is a Brazilian singer and composer whose music is influenced by bossa, percussion, samba, Brazilian soul, international funk music and one of judges of Brazilian Idol, Ídolos Brazil ....
  
  , singer and composer
• Pepeu Gomes
  Pepeu Gomes
  Pedro Anibal de Oliveira Gomes, better known as Pepeu Gomes is an accomplished Brazilian guitar player and composer...
  
  , composer
• Raul de Souza
  Raul de Souza
  Raul de Souza is a renowned trombonist who has recorded with Sergio Mendez, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Milton Nascimento, Sonny Rollins, Cal Tjader and the jazz/fusion band Caldera....
  
  , trombonist
• Roberta Miranda
  Roberta Miranda
  Roberta Miranda, artistic name of Maria Albuquerque Miranda, from João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil is a Brazilian singer. She is the third best-selling female artist in Brazil behind Xuxa and Maria Bethania , with 14.2 million discs sold so far. She got her start in the music industry singing in the...
  
  , singer
• Roberto Carlos
  Roberto Carlos (singer)
  Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
  
  , singer and composer
• Tim Maia
  Tim Maia
  Tim Maia , born Sebastião Rodrigues Maia in Rio de Janeiro, was a famous Brazilian musician known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and polemical musical style...
  
  , singer and composer
• Tom Zé
  Tom Zé
  Tom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded...
  
   (1936-), singer and composer
• Vanessa da Mata
  Vanessa da Mata
  Vanessa da Mata - with full name Vanessa Sigiane da Mata Ferreira - is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian MPB singer, songwriter...
  
  , singer and composer
• Zé Rodrix
  Zé Rodrix
  Zé Rodrix was a Brazilian composer, instrumentalist, and singer. He was well known in his native country for performing with musical ensembles Sá, Rodrix e Guarabyra, Som Imaginário and Momento Quatro....
  
  , guitarist, Som Imaginario, Sá, Rodrix & Guarabyra

Axé music

Axé music

Axé is a popular music genre originating in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil approximately in 1986, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as Marcha, Reggae, and Calypso. It also includes influences of Afro-Brazilian music such as Frevo, Forró and Carixada. The most important creator of this music...

• Cláudia Leitte
  Cláudia Leitte
  Cláudia Cristina Leite Inácio, known as Claudia Leitte is a Brazilian axé singer, and former vocalist of the group Babado Novo. Since she is one of the most popular axé singers in Brazil, she hosted MTV Brasil's Video Music Brasil 2007, in which she had been nominated as best singer in that award...
  
  , axé singer
• Margareth Menezes
  Margareth Menezes
  Margareth Menezes is a Brazilian singer from Salvador, Bahia.Her style is considered axé but her music also steers into samba and MPB territory, at times drawing on African rhythms and reggae....
  
  , axé singer
• Daniela Mercury
  Daniela Mercury
  Daniela Mercury , is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian axé, samba-reggae and MPB singer, songwriter and record producer. Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide...
  
  
• Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Sangalo
  Ivete Maria Dias de Sangalo is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian Axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress and television show host...
  
  , axé/pop singer

Música sertaneja

Música sertaneja

Música sertaneja or Sertanejo is a music style that had its origins in the countryside of Brazil in the 1920s .Sertanejo is currently the most popular music style in Brazil, arguably more popular than samba in most Brazilian states , even though samba is still quite popular in Rio de Janeiro...

• Bruno e Marrone
  Bruno e Marrone
  Bruno e Marrone are a Brazilian sertanejo duo from Goiania.Bruno performed for a decade as a solo musician before approaching Leandro e Leonardo for help finding a partner. They introduced him to Marrone , a concertina player. Their debut was released by Warner Bros...
  
  , country music duo
• César Menotti e Fabiano, country music duo
• Chitãozinho and Xororó, country music duo
• Daniel
  Daniel
  Daniel is the protagonist in the Book of Daniel of the Hebrew Bible. In the narrative, when Daniel was a young man, he was taken into Babylonian captivity where he was educated in Chaldean thought. However, he never converted to Neo-Babylonian ways...
  
  (formerly João Paulo e Daniel, before João Paulo's Death), romantic country singer and composer
• Edson e Hudson, romantic country duo
• Fernando e Sorocaba
  Fernando e sorocaba
  Fernando & Sorocaba are a country music duo from Brazil. Fernando is Fernando Zorzanello Boniface and Sorocaba is the stage name of Fakra Fernando de Assis . Fernando began singing when he was living in Cuiabá-MT, where he moved at age 15 and Sorocaba when he was on the faculty of agronomy in London...
  
  , "Universitário" country duo
• Gian e Giovane, romantic country duo
• Inezita Barroso
  Inezita Barroso
  Ignez Magdalena Aranha de Lima is a Brazilian folk singer and TV host who has also done some acting...
  
  , (1925-), folk music singer and scholar
• Jorge e Mateus, "Universitário" country duo
• Joao Bosco & Vinicius,"Universitário" country duo
• Leandro and Leonardo(Leandro died in 1998), country music duo
• Luan Santana
  Luan Santana
  Luan Domingos Rafael Santana is a Brazilian singer and composer of sertanejo universitário music. Currently he has two platinum records from his album ABPD by Luan: the live CD format and the DVD....
  
  , "Universitário" country singer and composer
• Paula Fernandes
  Paula Fernandes
  Paula Fernandes is a Brazilian sertanejo and country singer.- Biography :Born in Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Paula Fernandes started singing when she was eight years-old, releasing her first album two years later. Her second album, named Voarei, was released in 1995, and was inspired by the Ana...
  
  , modern country female singer
• Pena Branca & Xavantinho
• Rick & Renner, country music duo
• Sérgio Reis
  Sérgio Reis
  Sérgio Reis is a Brazilian sertanejo singer and actor. He has sold approximately 16 million copies of his more than 40 album releases....
  
  , classic country singer and composer
• Tião Carreiro & Pardinho
  Tião Carreiro & Pardinho
  Born in a farm in the outskirts of Araçatuba city, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, Tião Carreiro started to lear how to play the acoustic guitar at a very young age....
  
  ,folk music duo and scholar
• Tonico & Tinoco
  Tonico & Tinoco
  Tonico e Tinoco are a Brazilian musica sertaneja Duo,and claimed to be the most famous and prolific one. Formed by the siblings Tonico and Tinoco...
  
  ,folk music duo and scholar
• Victor & Leo, Romantic country music duo
• Zezé di Camargo & Luciano
  Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano
  Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano are Brazil's most famous sertanejo/country duo and brothers. They were born in Pirenópolis, Goiás. Zezé is the artistic name for Mirosmar José de Camargo and Luciano the artistic name for Welson David de Camargo....
  
  , country music duo

Jazz

• Luciana Souza
  Luciana Souza
  Luciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who has crossed over into classical music.Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in São Paulo. She is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston from which she received a Bachelor's...
  
  
• Gustavo Assis-Brasil
  Gustavo Assis-Brasil
  Gustavo Assis-Brasil is a Brazilian jazz guitarist. Based in Boston, he is considered a major pioneer in organizing the study and development of the hybrid picking technique for guitar. In 1999 he received a full scholarship to get his Master's degree at Berklee College of Music and The Boston...
  
  
• Victor Assis Brasil
  Victor Assis Brasil
  Victor Assis Brasil was a Brazilian jazz saxophonist. He was the brother of classical pianist João Carlos Assis Brasil. He studied at Berklee College of Music and later taught improvisation technique in Brazil...
  
  
• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
  
• Hélio Delmiro
  Hélio Delmiro
  Hélio Delmiro is a Brazilian guitar player and composer.Delmiro started playing the guitar in early childhood.Since then, he has played with many of the best Brazilian musicians, among whom are Moacyr Silva, Márcio Montarroyos, Luíz Eça, Elis Regina, Elza Soares and Elizeth Cardoso...
  
  
• Egberto Gismonti
  Egberto Gismonti
  Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...
  
  
• Toninho Horta
  Toninho Horta
  Toninho Horta is a virtuoso electric and nylon-string guitar player; his music could be defined as Brazilian music.He has developed his own very personal style...
  
  
• Romero Lubambo
  Romero Lubambo
  Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian jazz guitar player.Romero Lubambo started learning classic piano at a very early age...
  
  
• Cesar Camargo Mariano
  Cesar Camargo Mariano
  Cesar Camargo Mariano is a Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer. He is one of the most renowned instrumental artists to come out of his home country.-Biography:...
  
  
• Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hermeto Pascoal
  Hermeto Pascoal
  Hermeto Pascoal is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist. He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal is a greatly beloved musical figure in the history of Brazilian music, known for his abilities at orchestration and improvisation, as well as being a record producer and...
  
  
• Flora Purim
  Flora Purim
  Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever...
  
  
• Mu Carvalho
• Nana Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos
  Naná Vasconcelos is a Brazilian Latin jazz percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, most notable for his works with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismonti, and Gato Barbieri....
  
  

Rock

Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...

• Almerões
• Andre Matos
  André Matos
  André Coelho Matos born September 14, 1971 in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the oldest son of photographer Pedro Henrique Matos and Sonia Maria Coelho. André Matos was the former vocalist, pianist and composer for the power metal bands Viper, Angra and Shaaman. Since October 2006 Andre Matos has been...
  
  , (1971-), singer, pianist, keyboardist, composer
• Arnaldo Antunes
  Arnaldo Antunes
  Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
  
  , (1960), singer, composer, poet
• Barão Vermelho
  Barão Vermelho
  Barão Vermelho is a Brazilian rock band. Formed in 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, it was originally led by songwriting duo Cazuza and Roberto Frejat , which assumed the vocals after Cazuza's departure in 1986...
  
  
• Blitz
  Blitz (Brazilian band)
  Blitz is a Brazilian rock band. The band was the first to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles kick-starting the 1980s movement that would later be called "BRock"...
  
  
• Capital Inicial
  Capital Inicial
  Capital Inicial is a Brazilian rock band that flourished in the 1980s, saw a resurgence in the late '90s, and extended into the 2000s.-History:...
  
  
• Cássia Eller
  Cássia Eller
  Cássia Rejane Eller was a Brazilian musician. She performed a fusion of rock and MPB.- Biography :After spending most of her adolescence in Brasília, Eller dropped out of high school and returned to her birthplace of Rio de Janeiro, where she began a career as a recording artist...
  
  , singer
• Cello Dias
  Cello Dias
  Marcelo Dias, better known as Cello Dias, is the bassist of Against All Will and the former bassist of Soulfly.-The Mist:He began his career in 1988 playing bass for the Brazilian thrash metal band The Mist, who had just changed their name from Mayhem following a number of line-up changes...
  
  , bass guitarist for Against All Will
• Charlie Brown Jr.
  Charlie Brown Jr.
  Charlie Brown Jr. is a Brazilian rock band, from the city of Santos, São Paulo. Their biggest influences are The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Suicidal Tendencies and Rage Against the Machine.-Current formation:* Chorão - Vocals...
  
  , alternative rock band
• CPM 22
  CPM 22
  CPM 22 is a brazilian melodic hardcore band from São Paulo formed in 1995.Band members are Fernando Estefano , Ricardo Di Roberto , Fernando Sanches Takara and Luciano Garcia .- History :...
  
  , hardcore rock band
• Detonautas Roque Clube, hardcore rock band
• Engenheiros do Hawaii
  Engenheiros do Hawaii
  Engenheiros do Hawaii is a Brazilian rock band formed in Porto Alegre in 1985 that achieved great popularity with their ironic, critically charged songs with heavily semantic lyrics often relying on wordplays...
  
  
• Erasmo Carlos
  Erasmo Carlos
  Erasmo Carlos, born Erasmo Esteves on June 5, 1941, in the Tijuca area of Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, most closely associated with his friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Carlos...
  
  , 70's rock singer and composer
• Fernanda Abreu
  Fernanda Abreu
  -Biography:Fernanda was born and raised in a middle-class family of the South Zone, a neighborhood of Rio. Her first notable public appearance was the backing vocal of the band Blitz until 1986...
  
  , (1961-), singer and composer
• Igor Cavalera
  Igor Cavalera
  Igor Graziano Cavalera is a Brazilian musician. He is best known as the former drummer for Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura.-Biography:...
  
  , drummer for Cavalera Conspiracy
• Jorge Mautner
  Jorge Mautner
  Jorge Mautner is a Brazilian writer and singer. He is the creator of the Moviment of Kaos.-Albums:* Revirão - Gege/Warner Music* Eu não peço desculpa * Mitologia do Kaos...
  
  
• Kid Abelha
  Kid Abelha
  Kid Abelha is a rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed by Paula Toller , George Israel and Bruno Fortunato . The group has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 live albums and 2 live DVDs. They have created many songs which have entered into Brazilian pop-rock history...
  
  , pop rock band
• Legião Urbana
  Legião Urbana
  Legião Urbana were a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo , Dado Villa-Lobos and Marcelo Bonfá...
  
  
• Lobão
  Lobão
  Lobão, born João Luiz Woerdenbag Filho is a Brazilian rock and MPB singer and composer. He also plays the drums and guitar.Lobão is better known in Brazil for his 1980s hits, specially "Me Chama"...
  
  
• Los Hermanos
  Los Hermanos
  Los Hermanos is a rock band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The group was formed in 1997 by Marcelo Camelo , Rodrigo Amarante , Rodrigo Barba , and Bruno Medina...
  
  , rock band
• Lulu Santos
  Lulu Santos
  Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos is a Brazilian singer and guitarist, considered one of the great names of Brazilian rock.- Career :...
  
  , singer and composer
• Max Cavalera
  Max Cavalera
  Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal band Sepultura, before forming Soulfly in the late 1990s...
  
  , singer, guitarist (metal), frontman for Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy
• Mutantes
• Paralamas do Sucesso
  Paralamas do Sucesso
  Os Paralamas do Sucesso is a Brazilian rock band, formed in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s. Its members since 1982 are Herbert Vianna , Bi Ribeiro , and João Barone . In its beginning, the band combined reggae and ska with rock, but later added horn arrangements and Latin rhythms...
  
  
• Plebe Rude
  Plebe Rude
  Plebe Rude is a Brazilian rock band. It was formed in Brasília in 1981.-History:Plebe is a band formed in 1981 by Philippe Seabra, Gurje, Andre X and Jander Bilaphra. They began gaining popularity in the punk rock scene in 1982. They later went to São Paulo where they played with Ira! and then to...
  
  
• Raul Seixas
  Raul Seixas
  Raul Santos Seixas June 28, 1945 Salvador Northeast Brazil – August 21, 1989),was a Brazilian rock composer, singer, songwriter and producer.He is sometimes called the "Father of Brazilian Rock" and "Maluco Beleza"....
  
  , rock singer and composer
• Renato Russo
  Renato Russo
  Renato Russo was a Brazilian singer and songwriter. His first band was a punk rock band called "Aborto Elétrico" . The band then broke up and split in two different ones: "Capital Inicial" and "Legião Urbana"...
  
  , (1960–1996) singer and frontman of Legião Urbana
  Legião Urbana
  Legião Urbana were a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo , Dado Villa-Lobos and Marcelo Bonfá...
  
  
• Rita Lee
  Rita Lee
  Rita Lee Jones Carvalho , simply known as Rita Lee, is a Brazilian rock singer and composer. Lee continues to be a popular figure in Brazilian entertainment, where she is also known for being an animal rights activist and a vegetarian...
  
  , pop/rock singer and composer
• Robertinho de Recife
  Robertinho de Recife
  Robertinho de Recife is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, composer born in 1965, in the city of Recife, Brazil. His first contact with the guitar was at the age of 10. After he was run over by a car, he had to stay long periods of time at home and had to watch a lot of TV. In one of these TV...
  
  , guitarist and composer
• RPM
• Secos e Molhados
• Shaman (Brazilian band)
• Sepultura
  Sepultura
  Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and ultimately groove metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments melding nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial.Sepultura...
  
  , Heavy Metal band
• Titãs
  Titãs
  Titãs are a rock band from São Paulo, Brazil. Their best-known line up is the one in the album Cabeça Dinossauro : Nando Reis , Branco Mello , Marcelo Fromer , Arnaldo Antunes , Tony Bellotto , Paulo Miklos , Charles Gavin and Sérgio Britto...
  
  
• Ultraje a Rigor
  Ultraje a Rigor
  Ultraje a Rigor is a Brazilian rock band, which formed in 1980 and experienced great success along with other famous Brazilian rock bands from that time, like Titãs, Os Paralamas do Sucesso, Legião Urbana, and many others, mostly during the 1980s....
  
  

Pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

• Carrapicho
  Carrapicho
  Carrapicho is a Brazilian music group. Its lead singer is Zezinho Corrêa.Carrapicho is most known for its single "Tic, Tic Tac" which reached the top 100 best-sellers charts in several European countries, South America and Israel. A cover of the song has also been made in Russian by the Kazakh...
  
  , pop group
• Carmen Monarcha
  Carmen Monarcha
  Carmen Monarcha is a Brazilian soprano singer.Born into an artistic family in northern Brazil, her father is a writer and her mother a renowned Brazilian singer. She learned from a young age to play the cello and the piano and at first trained to be a concert cellist...
  
  , opera signer
• Arrigo Barnabé
  Arrigo Barnabé
  Arrigo Barnabé is a Brazilian musician and actor. His best-known record is perhaps the critically acclaimed "Clara Crocodilo". His music is best known for having a heavily experimental approach, in which the author uses dodecaphonism and atonalism as main principles of composition...
  
  , composer and singer
• Balão Mágico, children songs
• Dick Farney
  Dick Farney
  Dick Farney was a Brazilian pianist, pop-composer, and "crooner" popular in the 1950s.- Discography :...
  
  , 1950's "crooner"
• Gretchen
  Gretchen
  Maria Odete Brito de Miranda, known as Gretchen is a Brazilian singer. She became notorious as the Rainha do Bumbum in the late 1970s...
  
  ,
• Itamar Assumpção
  Itamar Assumpção
  Itamar Assumpção , born in Tietê, SP, Brazil. Itamar was a Brazilian songwriter and composer, who stood out in the independent/alternative music scene in the 80s a 90s, especially in São Paulo...
  
  , composer and singer
• Rosana Melo
  Rosana Melo
  Rosana Melo is a Brazilian popular singer who rose to prominence in 2005 participating in the TV show Gente que Brilha on SBT.-Domingão do Faustão:...
  
  , singer
• Trem da Alegria
  Trem da Alegria
  Trem da Alegria was a children musical band in Brazil. It was created in 1984, lasted until 1992, and throughout their career, they released eight albums that sold altogether six million copies....
  
  , children songs
• Xuxa
  Xuxa
  Xuxa , Maria da Graça "Xuxa" Meneghel, born March 27, 1963 in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian television actress, singer and children's television show host...
  
  , singer
• Br'oZ
  Br'oZ
  Br'oZ is a short-lived Brazilian vocal group and boy band, formed in the second season of the reality show Popstars, broadcast by SBT in 2003...
  
  , boyband
• Deborah Blando
  Deborah Blando
  Deborah Salvatrice Blando is an Italian-Brazilian singer and composer. She has about 5 million copies sold worldwide, with six albums released between 1991 and 2002...
  
  , pop singer
• Dreey-C, pop/R&B
• Felipe Dylon
  Felipe Dylon
  Felipe Dylon is a Brazilian pop singer. Born to a surfer father and an actor/dancer, his upbringing is reflected in the lyrics of his music. At the age of 10, he began to study guitar with a school band, and years later began work on a solo career. Described as youthful and up-beat, his 2002...
  
  , pop singer
• Kelly Key
  Kelly Key
  Kelly de Almeida Afonso , better known as Kelly Key, is a Brazilian singer.- Biography :Of Portuguese descent, Key released her first, self-titled album in 2001 at the age of 17. Her first single was the song "Escondido" in which she sang the suggestive lyics 'We went out to make out and to make...
  
  , pop singer
• KLB (boyband)
  KLB (boyband)
  KLB is a pop group/boy band from Brazil. The band consists of three brothers from São Paulo: Kiko , Leandro Finato Scornavacca and Bruno Finato Scornavacca...
  
  , pop group/boyband
• Luiza Possi
  Luíza Possi
  Luiza Possi is a Brazilian pop singer. She is the daughter of another famous Brazilian singer, Zizi Possi.-Biography:In 1999, Luiza was invited to go on stage and sing a song with a band that was opening a show by Skank at Credicard Hall in São Paulo...
  
  , pop singer
• alexander hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...
  
  , pop singer
• Sandy & Júnior
  Sandy & Junior
  Sandy & Junior was a Brazilian pop music duo consisting of siblings Sandy Leah Lima and her brother Durval de Lima Junior . They have one of the 10 best-selling albums ever in Brazil...
  
  , pop singers/pop duo
• SNZ, pop/R'nB group
• Rouge (pop group)
  Rouge (pop group)
  Rouge was a commercially successful girl group, formed in the first season of the Brazilian reality show Popstars, broadcast by SBT in 2002...
  
  , girlband
  Girlband
  Girlband can refer to:*A general name for an all-female band*Girlband *Girlband, a group on the fifth UK series of The X Factor...
  
  
• Wanessa Camargo
  Wanessa Camargo
  Wanessa Godói Camargo Buaiz , or simply as Wanessa, a Brazilian pop singer-songwriter...
  
  , pop singer
• Lulu Santos
  Lulu Santos
  Lulu Santos, stage name of Luiz Maurício Pragana dos Santos is a Brazilian singer and guitarist, considered one of the great names of Brazilian rock.- Career :...
  
  , pop singer
• Kasino
  Kasino
  Kasino is a eurodance group from Brazil. Conceived to be only a studio project, Kasino gained sudden inclusion of the first single "Can't Get Over" in a scene of América, a Brazilian telenovela. Quickly the music became a phenomenon in Brazil. In one month of existence, the group gained communities...
  
  , a band
• Thiago Riquette, pop singer

Electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

• Amon Tobin
  Amon Tobin
  Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin , known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He is described as a virtuoso sound designer and is considered to be one of the most influential electronic music artists in the world...
  
  , producer and DJ
• DJ Marky
  DJ Marky
  Marco Antonio Silva a.k.a. DJ Marky is a Brazilian drum and bass DJ.Together with DJ Patife, XRS Land and Drumagick, Brazilians were forging a new sound in drum and bass that became popular around the world with releases such as LK and Só Tinha Que Ser Com Você.-Career:He was brought to the...
  
  , DJ
• DJ Patife
  DJ Patife
  Wagner Borges Ribeiro de Souza , better known by his stage name DJ Patife, is a prominent Brazilian drum and bass DJ....
  
  , DJ
• Nery Bauer, Producer, Composer, DJ, Guitarist and Bass player
• DJ Dolores, Artist and DJ
• XRS Land, producer and DJ
• Direction2, Producer, Composer.
• Gui Boratto
  Gui Boratto
  Gui Boratto is a Brazilian electronic music producer. In the 1990s he was a member of Sect.His album Chromophobia was awarded the title of Mixmag Album of the Month. Regarding why he chose the name Chromophobia, Boratto said: "The same meaning as monochromatism in architecture, which means...
  
  , Producer, Composer.
• DJ Marlboro
  DJ Marlboro
  Fernando Luiz Mattos da Matta, better known as DJ Marlboro, is a Brazilian DJ.DJ Marlboro is one of the originators of the Funk Scene in Brazil. His LP Funk Brasil is seen as marking the birth of so-called Baile funk, which included rapping in Portuguese. DJ Marlboro is the host and producer of...
  
  , Producer, Composer, DJ.
• Drumagick
  Drumagick
  Drumagick are the brothers JrDeep and Guilherme Lopes . They are DJs and drum 'n' bass producers who live in São Paulo, Brazil.-History:...
  
  , Producer, Composer.
• Sebastiao "DJ Briza" Schumaher , Artist and DJ, London Squat Party Scene

Brazilian hip hop

Brazilian hip hop

Brazilian hip hop is one of the world's major hip hop scenes, with active rap, break dance, and graffiti scenes, especially in São Paulo, where groups tend to have a more international style, influenced by old school hip hop and gangsta rap.-History:...

• MV Bill
  MV Bill
  MV Bill, real name Alex Pereira Barbosa, is a Brazilian rap singer and co-author of the best-selling book Falcão - Meninos do Tráfico. The initials "MV" stand for "Mensageiro da Verdade", Portuguese for "Messenger of Truth"....
  
  , rapper
• Gabriel o Pensador
  Gabriel o Pensador
  Gabriel Contino, Gabriel o Pensador , is a Brazilian rapper.-Biography:Coming from a unique background among Brazilian rappers, Gabriel, the son of a well known journalist in Brazil, hit fame in 1992 with the song "Tô Feliz " the debut single from his first...
  
  , rapper
• Marcelo D2
  Marcelo D2
  Marcelo D2 is a Brazilian rapper.- Biography :A former vocalist of the band Planet Hemp, he started his solo career in 1998 with the album Eu Tiro É Onda. The album was recorded in his studio by David Corcos, and was mixed in New York and Los Angeles by Carlos Bass and Mário Caldato Jr...
  
  , rapper
• Racionais MC's
  Racionais MC's
  Racionais MC's is a hip hop group based in São Paulo, Brazil. Mano Brown , Ice Blue , Edy Rock and DJ KL Jay formed the group in 1988. Each member hails from the ring of favelas around São Paulo locally called the periferia...
  
  , rappers group
• Criolo (formerly known as Criolo Doido), rapper
• RZO, rappers group
• Ao Cubo, rappers group
• A Família, rappers group

• Sabotage, rapper, deceased January 24, 2003

Funk carioca

Funk carioca

Funk carioca , favela funk and, elsewhere in the world, baile funk, is a type of dance music from Rio de Janeiro, derived from Miami bass....

• Tati Quebra Barraco
  Tati Quebra Barraco
  Tati Quebra Barraco, , is a charismatic and rebellious Brazilian female MC, whose music consists mostly of funk/hip hop and Bilar funk genre. Tati is considered Brazil's first lady of hip hop as the first woman to break the barrier of male-only funkers...
  
  , female singer
• Menor do Chapa, singer
• MC Frank, singer
• MC Leozinho, singer
• Mr. Catra, singer
• Os Havaianos, singer and dancers group