Word: brazilians
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...always murenai," observes political commentator Nobuhiko Shima, "outside the group. He always went his own way. Now, in Japan, outsiders are respected. It's a big change." Entrepreneurial tycoon Masayoshi Son is Korean; Nissan fix-it man Carlos Ghosn is Brazilian. Both have successfully challenged the traditional rules of Japanese business. "It is the time for the outsiders in Japan," says Shima...
...WAVE Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim combines jazz, classical music and samba rhythms to help launch the bossa-nova craze of the 1950s...
...funky beat, and a tantalizing groove. Today musicians and listeners the world over are plugged into one another via the Internet, TV and ubiquitous recordings. The result is a vast electronic bazaar through which South African kwaito music can make pulses pound in Sweden, or Brazilian post-mambo can set feet dancing in Tokyo. Cultures are borrowing the sounds of other cultures, creating vibrant hybrids that are then instantly disseminated around the globe to begin the blending process all over again. "Musically, to an unprecedented degree, the U.S. is part of the world and the world is part...
...Brazilian singer-songwriter Moreno Veloso, 28, sings like a sleepy puppy dog and strums his acoustic guitar as if it were liable to crumble in his arms. On Music Typewriter (Hannibal), the first album by his group, Moreno Veloso + 2, his sweetness is offset by the steely rhythmic support provided by Domenico Lancelloti on electric drums and Alexandre Kassin on electric bass. In addition, Veloso's lyrics flow in both warm and cold, bristling with restraint one moment and full of affection and vulnerability the next. On Arrivederci, he sings, in Portuguese, "I don't like you that much/But every...
...land to the New York City new-wave group DNA. "Of course, there are influences [on Music Typewriter] from electronic music, from jazz, from experimental music and other things, like old funk," says Veloso, who lives in Rio de Janeiro. "But in a way, that for us is totally Brazilian...