RIO DE JANEIRO – The Beija-Flor samba group has been declared the champion of Rio de Janeiro's hotly contested Carnival parade competition. The group stoked controversy by staging a presentation ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The samba school Portela was picked Wednesday as the winner of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival parade competition, putting an end to a 33-year drought for the group known as one of the ...

Bangay will become the first LGBTQ-majority group to take part in the Rio carnival's samba parade - Copyright AFP/File Vasiliy BATANOV Bangay will become the first ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Anitta has become a pop music sensation in her native Brazil and abroad, but Monday she will have her first shot to prove herself on the country's biggest stage: the Sambadrome.

Today is the final day of the massive Carnival in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Samba is that festival's native sound, but the music can be heard in Brazil for the entire year. Tom Moon went to Rio before ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Shaking to samba and expressing a sense of longing with uniquely Brazilian words, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and ...

BETH CARVALHO: (Singing in non-English language). PARKS: ...Your mind might jump to Brazil. Today, samba is woven into the country's cultural identity. For the past three decades, Rio de Janeiro has ...

This year, the 31-year-old took on the new challenge of joining some of Brazil's most traditional samba artists as a songwriter for a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro. Anitta is a songwriter for the ...