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, gaucho music, 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.
Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais: one of the most important musical centers in Brazil during the 18th century.
José Maurício Nunes Garcia.
Antônio Carlos Gomes.
Heitor Villa-Lobos.
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 present in the Candomblé religion, as "the imagined spiritual power and energy bestowed upon practitioners by the pantheon of orixás". It also has ties with the Roman Catholic Church and the Lenten season, which represents the roots of Bahian Carnival.
Woman characterized as a "baiana", costume derived from connections to the predominant African culture in Bahia.
Ilê Aiyê, women symbolic of the Afro-Brazilian culture and community in Salvador, Bahia.
Ivete Sangalo as she performs in Salvador's Carnaval in 2012.
Olodum drummers playing their instruments like in the video clip They Don't Really Care About Us.
