Remezcla https://remezcla.com/author/ana-ribeiro/ Our Thing Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:20:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/author/ana-ribeiro/ 144 144 How Joelma Rewrote Brazil’s Cultural Perspective on Brega & Amazonian Music https://remezcla.com/features/music/how-joelma-rewrote-brazils-cultural-perspective-on-brega-amazonian-music/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:36:29 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=440249 It’s often a sign of how iconic an artist has become when their trademark traits turn into a cultural gag. Think of Elvis Presley’s swiveling hips, Michael Jackson’s piercing “hee-hee,” or young Justin Bieber’s side bangs. While undeniably outstanding, these quirks have all, at some point, edged into parody so much that not only do

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]]> Joelma_Our Heritage Month Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. Photo via Joelma's website. Meet Jaloo, the Brazilian Goddess Breaking Regional Labels by Mixing Ancestral Sounds https://remezcla.com/features/music/meet-jaloo-the-brazilian-goddess-breaking-regional-labels-by-mixing-ancestral-sounds/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:21:55 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=435717 With three solo albums under her belt and one album with her band Os Amantes, Jaloo changed her legal name to Jade Melo in 2024. “You know you’re one of us, right?” Jaloo recounts hearing from her trans friends before transitioning herself. “Yeah, I know,” she’d respond, then fully presenting as a man, or a

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]]> Jaloo_ Photo by Caia Ramalho. Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. From the Amazon to the World: How Los Mirlos & Rossy War Are Taking Peruvian Cumbia Across Borders https://remezcla.com/features/music/from-the-amazon-to-the-world-how-los-mirlos-rossy-war-are-taking-peruvian-cumbia-across-borders/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:53:50 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=431763 Peru has long been famous for its rich culture, gastronomy, and iconic tourist attractions, making it a top destination in South America. But when it comes to music, the country has sadly never gotten the same level of acknowledgment as some of its Latin American neighbors. Peruvian music has stayed under the radar, with some

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]]> Los Mirlos-Rossy War-Peruvian Cumbia Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. INTERVIEW: Liniker Won Brazil Over With Her Pop Star Persona – the Rest of the World Is Next https://remezcla.com/features/music/interview-liniker-won-brazil-over-with-her-pop-star-persona-the-rest-of-the-world-is-next/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:38:47 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=384593 “Everybody deserves love, even a pop star,” Liniker sings in “POPSTAR,” a track off her 2024 album CAJU (cashew). If the Brazilian artist’s new phase leaves any room for doubts that she’s indeed embodying the pop star persona, the lyric is explicit about it. Ten years after her debut in the music industry as the

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]]> Liniker_ photo by Rony Hernandes. The Grammys Failed Brazilian Legend Milton Nascimento — & It’s Bigger Than Just a Seat https://remezcla.com/features/music/milton-nascimento-brazilian-legend-grammys-no-seat-esperanza-spalding/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:30:25 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=383804 Between Beyoncé finally winning Album of the Year and The Weeknd reconciling with the Recording Academy, the 2025 Grammy Awards seemed to right many past wrongs. However, one glaring detail revealed that fairness still has its limits. Despite being nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album for Milton + Esperanza alongside Esperanza Spalding, Brazilian music legend

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]]> GettyImages-2197330648 Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Brazil Is Finally Listening to Bad Bunny – Here’s Why https://remezcla.com/music/brazil-is-finally-listening-to-bad-bunny-heres-why-debi-tirar-mas-fotos/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:24:07 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?p=383520 Bad Bunny has led the latest global boom of Latine music for a hot minute, breaking records with albums like YHLQMDLG (2020) and Un Verano Sin Ti (2022). In Latin America specifically, you could say he’s the undisputed king of music — if it wasn’t for one specific country: Brazil. Historically, music sung in Spanish

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]]> Bad Bunny_‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’_Brazil Photo by Eric Rojas. Meet Os Garotin, the Trio Putting a Pop Spin on Traditional Brazilian Music https://remezcla.com/features/music/meet-os-garotin-the-trio-putting-a-pop-spin-on-traditional-brazilian-music/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:07:00 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=379979 “Could this be the first boy band in the history of MPB?” Os Garotin jokingly asked their followers in an Instagram Reel. While Música Popular Brasileira (MPB, or “popular Brazilian music”) is a complicated genre to describe, there has been a historical divide between it and pop music — a narrow line that Os Garotin

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]]> Os Garotin_ Photo by Fernando Schlaepfer. Baile Funk & Tecnobrega: From the Peripheries of Brazil to the Global Electronic Stage https://remezcla.com/features/music/baile-funk-tecnobrega-from-the-peripheries-of-brazil-to-the-global-electronic-stage/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 16:44:45 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=378620 The combination of technology and creativity is a formula that has been repeated many times throughout the history of Brazilian music. In the country’s periphery, synthesizers and electronic drums became the vehicle of transformation for distinct regional sounds across Brazil, such as baile funk/funk carioca and tecnobrega. For years relegated to that space, these genres

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]]> ohm-brazilian funk_tecnobrega Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla. Meet Milena Warthon, the Peruvian Singer Introducing Pop Andino to the World https://remezcla.com/features/music/meet-milena-warthon-the-peruvian-singer-introducing-pop-andino-to-the-world/ Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:00:23 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_features&p=378613 When Milena Warthon decided to compete at Chile’s traditional Festival Viña del Mar in 2023 with “Warmisitay,” she didn’t expect that so many people would resonate with it. “This is a song about an Andean woman who celebrates herself and feels beautiful during the Carnival,” she tells Remezcla. The song’s name is the quechuañol term

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]]> Milena Warthon Photo by GRAPHICO Photography. 10 Artists Defining the New Era of Female Brazilian Rap https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-artists-defining-the-new-era-of-female-brazilian-rap/ Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:30:10 +0000 https://remezcla.com/?post_type=re_guides&p=376235 Just like with hip-hop in the U.S., women have always been an important yet lesser-acknowledged part of the Brazilian hip-hop scene. Since the movement started in the 1980s, female Brazilian rap has been a sub-niche of a genre that was niche itself, rap. Music by male rappers gained national momentum in the ‘90s, with the

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]]> Ebony_Mac Júlia_Brazilian Rap Art by Stephany Torres for Remezcla.