James Chambers OM, known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor. He is the only living reggae musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences.
The music of Brazil encompasses various regional musical styles influenced by European, American, African and Amerindian forms. Brazilian music developed some unique and original styles such as forró, repente, coco de roda, axé, sertanejo, samba, bossa nova, MPB, música nativista, pagode, tropicália, choro, maracatu, embolada, frevo, brega, modinha and Brazilian versions of foreign musical styles, such as rock, pop music, soul, hip-hop, disco music, country music, ambient, industrial and psychedelic music, rap, classical music, fado, and gospel.
Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history. These can be broadly divided into classical music, traditional/folk music and popular music and all of them have produced internationally successful acts, with the country seeing a recent expansion in musical styles, especially in popular music.
Axé is a popular music genre originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1980s, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reggae, and calypso. It also includes influences of Brazilian music such as frevo, forró and carixada. The word Axé comes from the Yoruba term àṣẹ, meaning “soul, light, spirit or good vibrations”. Axé is also present in the Candomblé religion, as “the imagined spiritual power and energy bestowed upon practitioners by the pantheon of orixás”. Not only is axé present in the Candomblé religion, but it also has ties with the Roman Catholic Church and the Lenten season, which represents the roots of how carnival came to be.
Olodum is a bloco-afro from Salvador's carnival, in Bahia, Brazil. It was founded by the percussionist Neguinho do Samba.
Guarulhos is a Brazilian municipality. It is the second most populous city in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, the 13th most populous city in Brazil, and is also the most populous city in the country that is not a state capital. In the last few years it has outgrown Campinas. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. Its population is 1,221,927 with an area of 318.68 km2.
Cordel literature (from the Portuguese term, literatura de cordel, literally “string literature”, [koʁˈdɛw]) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs. They are produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in Brazil, mainly in the Northeast. They are so named because they are hung from strings to display them to potential customers, and the word for rope in Portuguese is corda, from which the term cordel is derived.
Santiago do Cacém is a municipality in Setúbal District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 29,749, in an area of 1059.69 km2.
Celso Augusto Daniel was the mayor in 2002 for the third time of the city of Santo André in São Paulo, Brazil, as a representative of the Workers' Party (PT). He was kidnapped and assassinated in the same year.
Edson Cordeiro is a Brazilian sopranist countertenor and pop and jazz singer.
The Brazil men's national water polo team represents Brazil in international men's water polo competitions and friendly matches.
Edson Gomes Cardoso Santos, born on July 21, 1972, in Salvador, Bahia, nicknamed Jacaré, is a Brazilian dancer and Actor.
Cássia Rock Eller is an album of covers and original songs, recorded by Brazilian singer Cássia Eller in 2000.
Maria Cláudia Motta Raia is a Brazilian actress, singer, dancer, and stage producer.
Sette is an extended play by the Brazilian recording artist Claudia Leitte, released on October 30, 2014. The EP brings the songs "Matimba", "Cartório", "Foragido" featuring Brazilian reggae singer Edson Gomes, "Carreira Solo", "Abraço Coletivo" and "Salvador". For the release of the EP on CD, a remix version of "Matimba" featured Big Sean and MC Guimê was included in the track list. According to Leitte, the album was done "thinking in the summer, Brazilian Carnival, on the beach and barbecue".
Fogo sobre Terra is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 8 May 1974 and ended on 4 January 1975, with a total of 209 episodes in Black and white. It's the fourteenth "novela das oito" to be aired on the timeslot. It is created and written by Janete Clair and directed by Walter Avancini and Daniel Filho.
Vila Madalena is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast at the 7pm timeslot by Rede Globo from November 8, 1999, to May 5, 2000, in 155 episodes.
Edson Fernando da Silva Gomes, simply known as Edson, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Atlético Goianiense on loan from Rukh Lviv.
