Growing up, the Brazilian singer Anitta didn’t travel a lot. “My family was poor, so we didn’t have money to go anywhere,” she said, speaking by phone from her home in Rio de Janeiro’s Barra da Tijuca ...

(CNN) — The moment Brazilian pop sensation Liniker walked into Amoeba Music in Hollywood, the crowd roared. Fans lifted their phones, snapping pictures with one hand and clutching her Latin ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Brazilian composer, arranger and pianist whose melding of his native country’s traditional music with ’60s-vintage American pop, bossa nova, samba, funk and hints of cool jazz ...