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12/05/2012

Brazil culture ° samba


The origin of Samba music has a lot of similarities with Mambo and Salsa, which are undeniably linked to slavery and the religious traditions of West Africa...

    ~  Ron Edwards (Samba of Brasil: US SLAVE)

Brazilian dancer Mel Britto performs as Drum Queen of the  Caprichosos samba school  during Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival parade in the Sambadrome February 26, 2006
The word Brazilian Samba comes from Quimbundo language. 
One meaning is to pray, or invoke the spirits of the ancestors,
 or the Gods of African pantheon



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