Hermeto Pascoal performs during a festival in France in 2005. Known for improvisation and a sense of whimsy, Pascoal blended regional Brazilian folk music with jazz and psychedelia over a decades-long ...

Preta Gil, the Brazilian singer, actress, and daughter of music legend Gilberto Gil, has passed away at the age of 50. News of her death emerged on July 20, 2025, while she was undergoing treatment ...

Going out on a limb here, but we bet you've never heard the Chiefs anthem, "Red Kingdom," and felt moved to samba. Until maybe now. Ahead of the team's season opener Friday in Sao Paulo, Brazil, ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

The prolific Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal has died. Nicknamed “the Sorcerer,” Pascoal resembled a wizard from a storybook — both in his personal style, and his ability to create magical sounds ...

Pascoal said he had composed thousands of pieces. "I am 100 percent intuitive," he once told NPR. Miles Davis called him one of the most important... Hermeto Pascoal, whimsical Brazilian composer ...