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...Gonna Change)," sounds like Santana's own classic "Black Magic Woman" at its high point, but at its low point resembles a Bar Mitzvah band's version of Tito Puente. In a sense, Hooker's voice and Santana's style are completely incongruous. Or in other words, blues and samba just...
...crucial elements were there--Ivy League competition just never gets it this good. The game had a high level of play, touchline-to-touchline crowd support (samba beat included), more than its fair share of squint-through-the-darkness drama...
...intensely seductive, almost mesmerizing quality in her music has helped Helen Folosade Adu, the Anglo-Nigerian singer better known as SADE (pronounced Shah-day), sell more than 22 million copies of her first three albums. But the sameness of Sade's smooth, samba-scented love songs has always verged on monotony. Now, after a four-year silence, the singer is back with Love Deluxe (Epic), an album that is virtually indistinguishable from her previous ones. The final track, an overly long instrumental, underscores the fact that Sade has no new ideas. Anyone who owns an earlier Sade album would...
That reach may, in some countries, extend too far. In Brazil, where the more laid-back, samba-tinged rap of Rio is dueling for prominence with the harder- edged street anthems of Sao Paulo, hypercharged groups like Sons of the Ghetto decry the injustices of the social system. The most popular song is the work of an 18-year-old middle-class kid who calls himself Gabriel the Thinker. Only days after its release, the piece was the most requested number on a local radio station. Last month the government forced the station to take it off the air. Gabriel...
...South African mbaqanga, demand more authentic sounds. In his new album, Brasileiro, Mendes digs deeper into his musical roots to produce a down-home sampler ranging from a lively baiao -- folk music from Brazil's northeast -- to an off-beat Bahian-style rap. There are lots of leisurely sambas too, but the best selections are those on which drummers from Rio's samba schools burst into the explosive rhythms that provide the sound track for the city's joyous carnival...