Brazilian singer and composer Luciana Souza never seems to have known a day without music. She's the daughter of musicians, and Brazil's homegrown music — bossa nova — provided the soundtrack to her ...

One thing Sitti has learned in her more than 10 years in the music industry is that listeners tend to box an artist in the genre he or she started with and became known in. Also, that experimentation, ...

An array of colorful concerts is on offer through Monday, from bossa nova to angelic choral music and retro pop. Join in ``Music Forest” ― three days of musical festivity that branches out to reach ...

MANILA, Philippines – Is Sitti singing a different tune? That’s the question in my head after local Bossa Nova Queen Sitti intimated that her pre-birthday concert Sitti Live in Metrobar will be a ...

Sergio Mendes, the innovative and influential pianist, composer and arranger who was one of Brazil’s earliest contemporary crossover artists, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. No ...

Spencer Nessel, a Jackson native who describes himself as a music fanboy, has known he secretly wanted to perform himself ever since he started attending the live shows of his schoolmate Andrew ...

Luciana Souza's new album features pop standards set to a Brazilian bossa nova beat. The Brazilian-born singer has an intimate familiarity with bossa nova. But since her last album — in 2005 — she has ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eydie Gorme, a pop singer who paired with husband Steve Lawrence to become a top U.S. nightclub and television act, and also found success on her own with hits like "Blame it ...

In March, the Brazilian style of music known as bossa nova made an unexpected appearance on one of the year’s biggest hip-hop albums: Juice WRLD‘s Death Race for Love. Thank Tommy Brown. During a ...

This month Complex staff writer David Drake takes us to Bossa Nova Civic Club in Brooklyn. THE RUNDOWN: Bossa Nova Civic Club opened in December 2012 in an aggressively ugly part of Bushwick, an ...

The challenge I had on this record was, ‘how dare you take songs by Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen and present them this way?’ Brazilian singer and composer Luciana Souza never seems to have known a ...