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| | CD review: "Brazil Now," "The Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil," "BRAzSIL," "Power Samba Band," "Pixinguinha," ... |
 | | Brazil offers a musical palette nearly rich as that of the United States: There is the familiar bossa nova, of course, and samba, tropicalismo, forro, choro and (sadly) even lambada (although the insufferable hit song came from Bolivia, not Brazil). |
 | | Elis Regina was Brazil's greatest popular singer, the undisputed queen of the popular music scene, when she died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1982. |
 | | Her enduring popularity can be easily understood after listening to just a few tracks from a resissue of one of her albums, "Vento de Maio." She was possessed of a smooth, supple voice, an instrument of grace and beauty that was coupled to an arresting confidence and ability to completely own a song. |
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