Stories: Brazil

Stories connected to Brazil.

• The American-sounding song was Brazilian. The Brazilian song was American.On his 2004 English-language album, Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso recorded both Feelings and Carioca. The…
• An early Amazon film disappeared. Decades later, it surfaced in Prague.The Brazilian silent film Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo was presumed lost in 1931. In 2023, a digital copy a…
• The band lived together to rehearse. So did two giant snakes.While preparing the Brazilian album Fruto Proibido, Rita Lee lived in a borrowed house with her band and two…
• Two drum kits. Two basses. First, the producer needed lessons.Jorge Ben's 1976 Brazilian album África Brasil used an unusually large lineup, including two drum kits and tw…
• The title means 'chalice'. It sounds like 'shut up'.Brazilian song 'Cálice' used the similarity between the Portuguese words for 'chalice' and 'be quiet' to crit…
• A goat for city council? Voters unofficially chose him.Ioiô, a well-known goat in Fortaleza, Brazil, became the subject of a protest vote in a 1922 city council ele…
• The minister disliked his Wikipedia page. His ministry asked for it to be deleted.In 2019, Brazil's education ministry emailed a Portuguese Wikipedia administrator seeking deletion of the edu…
• Her window recordings helped expose traffickers and corrupt officers.Around age 80, Brazil's Joana da Paz began filming criminal activity near her home. The footage became eviden…
• The faces on this record sleeve were made with syrup.The cover of Tribalistas' 2002 album depicts the Brazilian trio using chocolate syrup. Artist Vik Muniz first…
• A lobster’s movement entered a diplomatic disputeIn the early 1960s Brazil and France disputed lobster fishing off Brazil’s coast. Brazil argued that lobsters…
• A nocturnal fruit eater navigates with clicking soundsOilbirds forage for fruit at night and can supplement their vision with echolocation in poor light. Their sha…
• The maned wolf helps disperse a plant’s seedsThe South American maned wolf is omnivorous and regularly eats the tomato-like wolf apple. It can pass the se…
• A snake-like amphibian with no lungsAtretochoana is a long, limbless amphibian rather than a snake. It entirely lacks lungs. Capillaries in its s…
• Surinam toad young develop in pockets on their mother’s backThe South American frog Pipa pipa carries developing eggs within pockets in the female’s back skin. The young…
• An ox returns to life on stageBumba Meu Boi is a Brazilian performance tradition told through song and dance. Details vary by region, but a…
• Its round fruit turns blue insideNative to Central and South America, the cannonball tree bears round fruit with woody shells, reaching about…
• Red and blue bull associations compete in spectacleAt Brazil’s Parintins Folklore Festival, Garantido in red and white and Caprichoso in blue and white compete…
• A leaflike turtle draws fish into its mouthThe mata mata is a South American freshwater turtle with a flattened triangular head and skin flaps. Its shel…
• A land crab investigates falling fruitCardisoma guanhumi lives along Atlantic coastal regions of the Americas and eats leaves, fruit and other food…