WJorge Aragão is a Brazilian musician, singer/songwriter, working in the genres of samba and pagode. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and plays the guitar, surdo, cavaco and banjo, among other instruments. In performance, he usually plays the cavaquinho most of the show, and sometimes the banjo.
WGeraldo Azevedo is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is famous for his contributions to the Brazilian Popular Music scene, especially his partnerships with Alceu Valença and Zé Ramalho.
WJosé Ribamar Coelho Santos, better known by his stage name Zeca Baleiro, is a Brazilian MPB artist. One of his most famous songs is "Salão de Beleza", which was featured on Putumayo World Music's Reggae Around the World compilation. Along with being a solo artist, he has also worked with guitarist Pedro Joia.
WAdoniran Barbosa, artistic name of João Rubinato, was a noted Brazilian São Paulo style samba singer and composer.
WAline Barros Kistenmacker dos Santos, better known as Aline Barros is a singer, songwriter, presenter and manager in Brazil. Some of her albums have been certified multiple Diamond by the Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD).
WAntonio Carlos Liberalli Bellotto is a Brazilian musician and writer, best known as the lead guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also written and released several books.
WVirginie Adèle Lydie Boutaud-Manent, also known mononymously as Virginie, is a French Brazilian singer, songwriter, classical guitarist, and former model and actress, famous for being the vocalist of the new wave bands Metrô and Virginie & Fruto Proibido.
WCarlos Alberto Ferreira Braga, commonly known as Braguinha or João de Barro, was a Brazilian songwriter and occasional singer.
WFernando Rocha Brant was a Brazilian poet, lyricist and journalist, born in Caldas, Minas Gerais.
WSérgio Britto ([ˈsɛxʒju ˈbritu], born Sérgio de Britto Álvares Affonso is a Brazilian musician, best known as a member of the rock band Titãs, for which he contributes with lead vocals, keyboards and, more recently, the bass guitar. He has also released three solo albums.
WCarlos Cabral Junior, also known as Junior Cabral, is a songwriter, producer, and arranger. Multiple Latin Grammy and Grammy Award winner, as well as Music Director for several Award-Winning World Tours. Latin Grammy nominations include; Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Best Vocal Pop Album, Best Ranchero Album, Best Norteño Album, Best Tejano Album, Best Vallenato Album.
WMaria Waldelurdes Costa de Santana Dutilleux, known by the stage name Daúde, is a Brazilian musician, singer-songwriter, and scholar. At age 11 she moved to Rio de Janeiro. She studied singing with baritone Paulo Fortes at the Music Villa-Lobos Performing Arts School in Martins Pena. She attended college and graduated with a degree in Portuguese Literature and earned a post-graduate degree in African history.
WErasmo Carlos is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, most closely associated with his friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Carlos. Together, they have created many chart hits including "É Proibido Fumar", "Sentado à beira do caminho", "Além do Horizonte", "Amigo" and "Festa de Arromba".
WDanilo Candido Tostes Caymmi is a Brazilian musician, singer, composer and arranger.
WAntônio Vicente Filipe Celestino was a Brazilian singer, composer and actor of Italian descent.
WKátya Pujals Chamma is a Brazilian songwriter, singer, poet, writer and cultural producer.
WDjavan is a Brazilian singer/songwriter.
WRaimundo Fagner Cândido Lopes is a Brazilian singer, composer, musician, actor and music producer. He is commonly known by the stage name of Fagner.
WMarcondes Falcão Maia, better known by his stage name Falcão, is a singer-songwriter, television presenter, and humorist. Recording on brega and comedy rock genres, Falcão has already released nine studio albums, and popular songs "I'm Not Dog No", "Black People Car", "Holiday Foi Muito", "Homem é Homem" and "I Love You Tonight."
WMarcelo Falcão Custódio is a Brazilian musician, the lead singer of the group O Rappa.
WMarcelo Fromer was the guitarist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. One of the founding members and also the band's manager, he died in 2001, after being hit by a motorcycle while jogging.
WBeto Furquim is a Brazilian songwriter and singer, born in São Paulo, Brazil.
WCharles de Souza Gavin is a drummer and musical producer, whose fame comes mainly from his drums works at Brazilian rock band Titãs.
WHumberto Gessinger is best known as the musician, guitarist, and bassist from the Brazilian band Engenheiros do Hawaii.
WPreta Maria Gadelha Gil Moreira, known as Preta Gil, is a Brazilian singer and actress. She is the daughter of Gilberto Gil, a famous musician and former Minister of Culture in Brazil.
WAstrud Gilberto is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She became popular in the 1960s after her performance of the song "The Girl from Ipanema".
WHeitor Vilela Gomes is a Brazilian bassist and songwriter, best known for his work with bands Charlie Brown Jr. and CPM 22.
WCarlos Eduardo da Corte Imperial, better known as Carlos Imperial, born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, ES, Brazil, was a Brazilian actor, filmmaker, television presenter, songwriter and music producer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
WTiago Iorczeski is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and record producer. As a child, he lived in England and in the United States. Despite having no musical background in his family, Tiago started playing the acoustic guitar at age 8.
WCarlos Laufer, better known mononymously as Laufer, is a Brazilian musician, songwriter and record producer.
WJoao MacDowell is a Brazilian composer who is known for fusing contemporary and popular styles with classical music. His work includes opera, symphonic and chamber music as well as early albums of Brazilian pop.
WVanessa Sigiane da Mata Ferreira , professionally known as Vanessa da Mata, is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian MPB singer, songwriter, and novelist. She has released four studio albums and the songs "Ai, Ai, Ai", "Boa Sorte/Good Luck" and "Amado" became number-one hits in Brazil.
WPedro José Ferreira da Silva, known as Glauco Mattoso, is a poet, writer, novelist, essayist, translator and songwriter from Brazil.
WBranco Mello is a Brazilian musician and actor, best known as the vocalist and bassist of Brazilian rock band Titãs. He has also played small but significant roles for the movies.
WLuiz Carlos dos Santos, widely known by his stage name Luiz Melodia, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose music was a characteristic crossover of multiple Music genres including Música popular brasileira (MPB), rock music, blues, soul music and samba. He has been described as 'one of the most important Brazilian-born musicians.'
WSérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has over 55 releases, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2012 as co-writer of the song "Real in Rio" from the animated film Rio.
WPaulo Roberto de Souza Miklos is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, musician and actor. He is best known for his tenure with the band Titãs, in which he was a vocalist, guitarist and occasional saxophonist, keyboardist and harmonica player from its inception in 1982 until 2016, when he left it to focus on personal projects.
WCarlos Eduardo Miranda, also known simply as Miranda or by his initials CEM, was a Brazilian songwriter, musician, record producer, and television music and talent competition judge.
WMarcus Vinícius da Cruz e Mello Moraes, also known as Vinícius de Moraes and nicknamed O Poetinha, was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, essayist, and playwright. Along with frequent collaborator Antônio Carlos Jobim, his lyrics and compositions were part of the birth of bossa nova music. He recorded several albums and also served as a diplomat.
WNelson Cândido Motta Filho is a Brazilian journalist, ghostwriter, songwriter, writer, and record producer.
WNego do Borel, artistic name of Leno Maycon Viana Gomes, is a Brazilian singer of funk ostentação, songwriter and actor. He is known for hits "Os Cara do Momento", "Diamante de Lama", "Bonde dos Brabos" and "Você Partiu Meu Coração", with Wesley Safadão and Anitta. Currently he has two albums released by Sony Music. Nego do Borel was the sixth Brazilian artist to enter the US Billboard Hot 100.
WPaulo Ricardo is an Brazilian rock singer, songwriter, composer, musician, record producer and occasional actor.
WMariana Nolasco is a singer, songwriter, YouTuber and Brazilian actress.
WElvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette and actress, singer, writer and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse.
WJorge Pescara is a Brazilian bassist and Megatar player specializing in jazz fusion, progressive rock, experimental music, and Brazilian jazz.
WPaulo César Pinheiro is a Brazilian poet and composer. One of the best poets of Musica Popular Brasileira, he wrote lyrics for a great number of songs for some of the best-known entertainers in Brazil. Among his collaborators have been João Nogueira, João de Aquino, Francis Hime, Dori Caymmi, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Ivan Lins, Edu Lobo, Mauro Duarte, Guinga, Baden Powell de Aquino, Toquinho, Eduardo Gudin e Maria Bethânia.
WNoel de Medeiros Rosa was a Brazilian songwriter, singer, and guitar/mandolin player. One of the greatest names in Brazilian popular music, Noel gave a new twist to samba, combining its Afro-Brazilian roots with a more urban, witty language and making it a vehicle for ironic social commentary.
WSandy Leah Lima, known mononymously as Sandy, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Campinas, Sandy began her career in 1989 when she formed with her brother, musician Junior Lima, the vocal duo Sandy & Junior. They rose to fame in the early 1990s as child stars and reached the height of their success during teenage, as albums Era Uma Vez... Ao Vivo (1998), As Quatro Estações (1999), Quatro Estações: O Show (2000) and Sandy & Junior (2001) sold more than a million units, with the second and third being among the best-selling albums of all time in Brazil. The duo were credited with leading a wave of teen pop artists during the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the press labelling Sandy the Brazilian "Princess of Pop". The duo disbanded in 2007 and released their Acústico MTV in September that year. In addition to their success in the music industry, the sibling's name became a strong brand, with more than 300 licensed products which made R$300 million a year.
WFrancisco Manuel da Silva was a songwriter and music professor. He was born and died in Rio de Janeiro. He had great prominence in the musical life of Rio de Janeiro in the period between the death of José Maurício Nunes Garcia and Antônio Carlos Gomes. He was a singer of Capela Real since 1809, and later a cello player. He was one of the founders of Imperial Academia de Música e Ópera Nacional, of Sociedade Beneficência Musical e Conservatório Imperial de Música, which became Instituto Nacional de Música and is called Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
WTaiguara Chalar da Silva, whose stage name was Taiguara, was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
WFernanda Barbosa Takai is a Brazilian singer, better known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Pato Fu. She has also been working on a solo career since 2007.
WJay Vaquer is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
WCaetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On November 14, 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year.
WHerbert Lemos de Sousa Vianna is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer mainly known for his work with rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso.
WVictor Han Bacic Galvão, better known as Victor Han, is a Korean-Brazillian drummer, YouTuber, singer, songwriter, and a former member of K-pop boy band About U. He is considered the first K-pop idol of Brazilian origin.
WMaria da Graça Xuxa Meneghel is a Brazilian television host, film actress, singer, model and businesswoman. Her various shows have been broadcast in Portuguese, English, and Spanish worldwide. She is a two-time winner of the Latin Grammy Award for Best Children's Album, and is also known for her epithet, the "Queen of Children".
WZé Renato is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.