Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São Paulo. Held in halls across the city in the 1970s and 1980s, the show became a meeting point for black culture and opened up space for funk, soul, rap and pagode, among other rhythms. The party welcomed names such as Tim Maia, Sandra de Sá, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Bebeto and Carlos Dafé, as well as international artists such as Kurtis Blow, Betty Wright and James Brown.
Armed with music and a message, influential hip-hop group Racionais MC's turned their street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and beyond.
An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?
"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A portrait of a plural Brazil from the racial discussion promoted by a trip to 6 Brazilian cities. What do the Arts have to say about Black Brazil?
This documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40 years.
Mauro Mateus dos Santos was known by another name: Sabotage. Growing up amidst poverty in São Paulo, the musician, who became a legend after his death, is one of the most important names in national rap.
1000 Trutas, 1000 Tretas is a live DVD by the Brazilian rap group Racionais MC's, released in 2006.
A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both reacted strongly to their situation. One has become a drummer in a rap/rock band. The other has killed forty-four people and is now in jail. Both use the term "Wicked Souls" to describe their enemies.
Pedro Paulo Soares Pereira (São Paulo, April 22, 1970), better known as Mano Brown, is a Brazilian rapper and songwriter. He is one of the members of Racionais MC's, a rap group formed in São Paulo in 1988 and made up of Ice Blue (Paulo Eduardo Salvador), Edi Rock (Edivaldo Pereira Alves) and KL Jay (Kleber Geraldo Lelis Simões). In October 2008, Rolling Stone magazine promoted the list of the 100 greatest artists in Brazilian music, in which he ranked 28th.
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