Música brasileira

Brasilian music is not only samba... MPB, Música Popular Brasileira is probably the most important, also because it seems to encompass quite a lot. Here the music academy is the MPB school - traditional instruments, traditional sounds and beats, then developping that into whatever direction, this is MPB. Then the bossanova, from the 50's with João Gilberto as main figure, is one of the most important Brasilian music style, which developped eventually into some kind of Brasilian jazz; then we have also some Brasilian reggae, the carioca funk, some kind of folk-country music (I think they call it caipira or sertanejo)...

Duas guitarras

Here you have some examples of my favourites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoo2cO1noU0&feature=related (Céu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7T91KivbM (Los Hermanos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbvBJHvdMLk (Bebel Gilberto, the daughter of João Gilberto - the 'founder' of Bossanova)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwLJhBzs-jo (Tom Jobim - I was just introduced to him as the best Brasilian composer ever... a bit bossanova, a bit samba, a bit jazzy... very nice!)

Enjoy!