| It's a kind of Latin joint full of sleazy men and girls who can do a passable samba, lambada or can just shake their hips. |
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| This northeast coast of Brazil, the home of the Brazilian beat, samba and dance music. |
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| Kidjo's style of music varies from Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz and rumba. |
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| The Brazilian samba band, like a symphony orchestra or a jazz combo, unites distinctive voices into an exciting whole. |
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| Musical groups danced the samba all the way, beating bongo drums and shaking tambourines. |
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| Brazilian samba also appears in the global music and dance show, tomorrow from 6.30 pm. |
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| We practiced the cha-cha, quickstep, jive and samba, all of which are coming along quite well. |
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| This Brazilian team, however, has about as much relevance to the samba as a clog dance. |
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| Brazilian chanteuse Cibelle's debut is wonderfully off the map, taking the samba and bossa nova sounds into new territories. |
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| The parade will feature a samba band, fire-eaters, Gypsy Kate's magic show, and a fancy dress competition for adults and children. |
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| It is believed that the word samba is derived from a West African Bantu word, meaning to pray or invoke the spirits of their ancestors. |
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| However, ballroom dancing also includes the higher impact tango, fox-trot, cha-cha, and samba. |
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| His backing troupe were a mix of 15 muscle Marys and massively befeathered Argentinean samba dancers. |
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| The Brazilian fans' samba rhythms may be loose, but when it comes to their national team, they are incredibly high-strung and impatient. |
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| On a weekly basis the programme consists of samba drumming, guitar and dance. |
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| Workshops also took place in St Sampson's Square and King's Square, including children's face mask painting, drumming, music and samba dancing. |
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| Ozomatli musical fusions and cross-cultural unions create a gumbo of styles that include dub, samba, salsa and hip-hop. |
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| That explains why the quickstep is her favorite dance, followed by the paso, the samba, the blues and the starlight waltz. |
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| Men like the late Jim Butler and Seamus Sommers took us first-timers out on the floor to teach us to waltz, do foxtrots, quicksteps and to samba. |
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| Off The Rails will also be playing rock, reggae, jazz, folk, samba, blues and world music-influenced songs. |
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| Unlike his predecessor, he doesn't appear to posses an ear for Latin, samba, jazz or the big band sound. |
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| The finale is a blazing samba, with all sorts of cross-rhythms and various textures. |
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| By the stereo, Mauro is trying to teach an Arabic Danish girl how to samba. |
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| Everyone's back on stage for the Carnaval Finale, and there'll be plenty of room for the audience to samba and share the festive spirit. |
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| He and I danced the gypsy tap, the mambo and the samba, just as we had in my garage. |
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| She had a samba groove done by a Brazilian human beatbox and wondered if I could come up with a melody or something. |
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| Not as raw as ethnic Latino rhythms like salsa, son, samba and merengue but bearing some of their signatures. |
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| In this case, the variables include vintage dancefloor jazz, dirty funk, boogaloo and hip hop, with a little samba and house in there too. |
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| While the rest of us were immersing ourselves in Cuban music and salsa, Peterson was looking to Brazil and the sounds of samba and bossa nova. |
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| Within seconds it stutters its way into a samba breakdown and reggae strut before galloping to a repeat. |
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| There's plenty of old school and funk, but there's even some Motown soul, swing, Japanese rap, reggae, J-pop, samba and early electronica. |
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| However, you are only allowed to go out if your team has melded two sambas, or two canastas, or one samba and one canasta. |
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| One moment Arto sings samba gentle as a nostalgic caress, the next his guitar is like flint grinding on flint. |
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| Hints of zouk, samba and electroclash rear their groovy heads through a parade of infectious Afro-housers. |
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| Then again the French whistler parped so much he could have beat out a samba. |
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| Moving into samba territory, the song shuffles among spicy guitar licks and a bottom-dwelling bassline. |
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| With equal imperception it bent down and down, closer and closer to the lake waters, murky with the samba of subaqueous weeds and the abyss. |
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| If majorettes and samba bands are taking part it is a lot of hard work for them. |
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| Both Latin and South America are hot, passionate, and filled with the sensuous beats of the mambo, samba, and tango. |
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| The Latin category consists of the rumba, cha cha, samba, paso doble and jive. |
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| Dances like the samba, rhumba, cha-cha, and mambo were the sexiest things that white people were allowed to do until the twist came along. |
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| He is an experienced musician with specialist skills in percussion, rhythm, samba, composition and making percussion instruments from different cultures. |
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| He touches softly at his guitar in that electric samba style, and his breathy croon winds the melody in and out of the occasional low swell of horns. |
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| Don't be surprised if Pope Francis, already known for his tango skills, can't resist an impromptu samba session on the beach. |
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| In such a way, from a source of national pride, malandragem, samba, and syncopations would turn into a damnation, an unbreakable fate or an inescapable karma. |
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| It sometimes resembles the combination of an Argentine tango with a Brazilian samba. |
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| It is not the case that we in Brazil do not dance the samba anymore. |
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| And don't dance alone, plan the samba together with one or more colleagues, making them your sparring partners, stimulators, advisors. |
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| No stranger to glitz, glamour and netting loaded with sequins, Macdonald's chances of success at the samba or foxtrot are high. |
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| Salsa is still relatively new compared to other Latin American dances such as the cha-cha-cha or the samba, and as such is still in the process of evolving. |
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| He was aiming for a light and airy samba feel, with a breathy girl singer. |
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| She made it to the show's semi-finals with her professional dance partner, having learnt to dance the waltz, foxtrot, samba, rumba, jive and quickstep among others. |
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| In their case, this meant drawing on free jazz, samba, religious song, blues, and exotica. |
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| Behind the samba beat, the country remains deeply polarized at home, in politics, and in the pews. |
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| Clare's songs are again a mix of favourite oldies and cracking originals, not a misfire among them, taking in pop, big band and samba but possessing a distinctive style. |
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| Joshua Lawson, a postgraduate student at the School of African and Oriental Studies, formed part of a samba band at the demonstration. |
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| The local residents strongly support their particular samba school, which provides a strong sense of belonging to the district, in a spirit of solidarity, but also of competition. |
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| It was a flare-up of angular, post-punk samba. |
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| They were singing loudly, dancing samba and playing the drums. |
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| In summer 1977 ECM suddenly sounded like Brazil, though not like samba and carnival but more complex, broken and modernistic, just as the city Brasilia is a hypermodern architectural vision in the middle of the jungle. |
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| Each presentation includes 2,500 people or more, all singing the same song and dancing out a furious samba step. |
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| This book teaches the basics of playing three Brazilian styles, choro, samba and bossa nova, on solo piano or as part of a group. |
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| There is a run on mouthwash in Salvador, where kissing as many people as possible has become as traditional a Carnival pastime as watching the fierce competition between samba schools in Rio de Janeiro. |
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| The person might harbour a secret desire to don a purple tutu and samba with an orangutan in Togoland for all you know. |
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| Sunday sees a samba band, Teesside Pipe Band, kids' Zumba, steel band and archery range. |
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| And it did so with something that most of the United States lacks: a Dionysian spirit, a happy sense that all the squalor and conflict will end or at least be suspended in a samba. |
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| Dances like samba and capoeira are African influenced. |
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| Similar processes take place at the national level in the case of samba in Brazil, percussive styles of music in Venezuela, and several different musical genres on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Colombia. |
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| A renowned singer, songwriter, and composer, N'Dour's mix of traditional Senegalese mbalax with eclectic influences ranging from Cuban samba to hip hop, jazz, and soul has won him an international fan base of millions. |
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| While samba music continues to act as the national unifying agent in Rio, Funk Carioca found a strong community following in Brazil. |
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| The band changes from samba to lambada, samba-reggae to forro, and maracatu to samba-de-roda, a news release says. |
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| In this first adventure, Joey dances the samba, quaffs caipirinha cocktails and explores the favela slums in Rio. |
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| There will also be the chance to try something different, including the steel drums, ukulele, Taiko, and samba and African drumming. |
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| Thirty pupils competed to be the school's popstar of the year and there were drumming, samba and Indian music workshops. |
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| A joyous outpouring, Disco e Progresso fuses elements of disco, funk, dancehall, kuduro, new weave, breakbeat, samba and more into a singularly exuberant escapade. |
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| The two oldest styles of samba, samba chula and samba de roda, started with the original African slaves who were brought to Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia. |
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| Hot Border Special bost an eclectic mix of styles, with Influences ranging from afrobeat to rock, highlife to funk, and even a hint towards samba. |
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| Youngsters from across the North East will enjoy Bollywood dancing, samba and steelpan drumming and henna painting as part of the Children's Multicultural Arts Festival. |
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| Pop music, bhangra dancing, a samba drum band and a belly dancer were among the performers at the spectacular Don't Forget event at Rugby's Benn Hall. |
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| Scotland finished on the same points as both Yugoslavia and Brazil but the samba stars scored one more goal against Zaire which was crucial in the final reckoning. |
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| They have liberos, schemers, sweepers, samba and catenaccio football. |
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