Carmen Miranda News

This 1943 musical by Busby Berkeley opens with a jaw-dropping flourish : a three-minute-and-twenty-second crane shot that flows from a singer's pinpoint-lighted face to an abstract pattern of diagonal lines that's soon revealed to be ropes on a New York dock, where an ocean liner is disgorging its goods and passengers, one of whom turns up at the ...

Rio de Janeiro , State of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil Saturday, December 26, 2009 View from Corcovado Hill This morning the waiter at the hotel made us the national drink for breakfast--the "caipirinha." It was lime, ice, sugar, and coconut water, though usually it has the the alcohol "cachaca" in it as well.

Whenever she could, Bebel Gilberto happily left words behind as she performed at Hiro Ballroom on Wednesday night.

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 4:58 pm Press Release: Reel Brazil Press Release – for immediate release November 3, 2009 November 26 - 29, 2009 Soundings Theatre Te Papa, Wellington This month Wellington will be filled with the sound of drums, as the first Reel Brazil Film Festival kicks off! Paying special tribute to the Brazilian Carnival and ...

If we haven't heard of Fabiana Cozza until now, that's nobody's fault but ours. That problem will be easily corrected when the extravagantly gifted Brazilian makes her first appearances in Canada, with MusicFest Vancouver shows on August 15 at VanDusen Botanical Garden and August 16 at the Cellar Jazz Club.