Brazilian Funk Is Going Global. Can More Artists Break Through?
The genre has found fans around the world, but Brazilian acts still face major challenges to make it to stardom.
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The genre has found fans around the world, but Brazilian acts still face major challenges to make it to stardom.
Four decades after it originated in the favelas of Rio, a new wave of the electronic music genre is exploding on TikTok, and inspiring the likes of Cardi B and Travis Scott
DJ Firmeza serves up a razor-sharp kuduro remix of Daniel Haaksman and Deize Tigrona’s ‘Tudo’
As music markets “glocalise”, the stars could align for Brazilian funk. As of 2023, at least five things show that they might be.
TextOde The Brazilian artist and braider shares how the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion inspires her work and the challenges of expanding western perspectives that ignore creatives from the global south As the daughter of a manicurist, who dreamed of being a hairdresser, but unfortunately never had the money to invest in a course, BrazilianhairstylistJanice Mascarenhas grew up around the salon where her mother worked. “Although it is often a hostile environment, it is also a place that has the power of mutation,” says the Rio-born artist, currently top 5 on Newlife.ai, the cryptocurren...