Country of origin
Brazil music genres
Explore music genre guides with documented origins in Brazil.
4 genre guides
1950Sertanejo
A Brazilian rural-popular genre that moved from interior duos and radio into a huge commercial mainstream, while keeping a clear line back to acoustic, regional storytelling.
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A classic Brazilian style from late-1950s Rio, bossa nova pairs samba’s rhythmic lift with jazz harmony and an unusually intimate vocal style. The genre’s early recordings by João Gilberto and Antônio Carlos Jobim became the blueprint for its global reputation.
1977Pagode
A samba-rooted Rio genre that grew from backyard gatherings into one of Brazil’s most recognizable popular styles. The most reliable accounts place its musical crystallization in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with Beth Carvalho helping carry it outward.
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Doom Blues
A real but lightly documented hybrid tag, best treated as an emergent descriptive label rather than a settled genre with a single origin point.