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Lim Ki-mo’s first heard Brazilian music 50 years ago in his home town of Busan; now his consular crooning marks a triumph of soft power

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The singer and composer Nelson Sargento, one of the main icons of samba and Brazilian popular music, died Thursday at the age of 96 in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, a victim of Covid-19, confirmed sources close to the artist. The author of hits such as 'Primavera', 'Agoniza mas nao morre' and 'Cântico à natureza' was diagnosed with the coronavirus last Friday after being hospitalized in the capital of Rio de Janeiro. The former main composer of Mangueira, one of the most traditional samba schools, had been fully immunized against Covid since the end . . . To read th...

Samba troupes fight to stay positive as cancellation of parades hurts jobs and dampens hope in the favelas

For the Academics of Rocinha, the samba school from Brazil’s most famous favela, 2021 was supposed to herald a new dawn. Twelve months ago the troupe had hit one of its lowest ever ebbs: drowning in debt, riven by infighting and relegated to the third division of Rio’s carnival championship after coming bottom of its group. This month, as the annual festivities returned, its new directors were determined to bounce back. “I’m extremely...