Her dance-heavy and sex-positive performance included a capoeira battle, risqué imagery, a celebration of favela funk and more. By Isabela Raygoza Associate Editor, Billboard Español Amid a ...

From frequenting baile funks in São Paulo to running her own trans-led parties over in Europe, Slim Soledad comes up at a ...

For those fortunate enough to have been at the Fillmore Miami Beach last night, one would have thought they were at a dancehall in Brazil partying with Latin-pop sensation Anitta. Thursday evening’s ...

Anitta's debut US performance at the Wiltern in Los Angeles was a sold-out success, eagerly awaited by fans. It was difficult to believe it was her inaugural performance in the US as the Brazilian ...

Funk Carioca is dirty dancing at its dirtiest, and lyrics at the height of vulgarity. It can be heard throughout the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, all day and night long, from cars, houses, and bailes ...

Anitta had never headlined her own concert in the States before Wednesday night’s sold-out show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Yet it was hard to believe it was her first time after witnessing the ...

1 of 11 — Wellington Costa, 19, performs at the semifinals of a passinho competition in Rio de Janeiro on April 23. Passinho is a liberated dance form born in Rio's favelas, or shantytowns. 2 of 11 — ...

After my article earlier this week on the music of baile funk legend DJ Edgar, I approached DJ Comrade, a good friend of a few of us here at DAD, and asked him to suggest to me some other new tunes ...

Militaristic beats and an optimistic combination of baile funk and Balti club – this is the story of a burgeoning underground dance music subgenre that pays homage to Russian culture Mention "Soviet ...

The funk mineiro sound DJ Anderson do Paraíso helped pioneer has brought global attention to Belo Horizonte's music scene. The Brazilian pioneer shares a bare bones mix of the style and speaks to ...