Baile funk emerged in Rio de Janeiro's favelas ... movement by focusing their eyes down on their feet. Red Bull Dance Your Style Brasil champion André DB reflects: "We often get hurt practising ...

Brazilian funk, at least out on the radical, thrilling, ear-frying, brain-scrambling fringes, is primarily a producer’s genre ...

paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo - whatever was around. The passinho, a dance style created in the 2000s by kids in Rio de Janeiro ...

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...

Locking, a high-energy style created by Don Campbell, became synonymous with funk, featuring exaggerated arm movements and ...

The "Girl from Rio" has come a long way ‒ and now she's coming home to herself. Brazilian music superstar Anitta, born Larissa de Macedo Machado, has been enthralling audiences for over a decade ...

The 1960s was a melting pot of musical innovation, with multiple genres forming, growing and progressing simultaneously in often completely different directions. Funk music started to emerge in ...