New Brazilian Gringo Posts Is Brazil Out of Tune? – A reflection on the João Gilberto song desafinado The best introduction to Brazilian music – A review of the documentary Brasil, Brasil Songs we listened to this week Maria Rita-Canto das águas -This is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard in a long time. […]
É Nois! The Next Generation of Brazilian Gringos
I’m sitting in JFK International, watching the rain beat down on the on the runway. I’m sick of the rain. Just days after historic floods devastated my home state of South Carolina; here I am again, watching rain out of a window. No matter, I think to myself, the forecast for Rio is 95 and […]
What’s going on behind the scenes at Brazilian Gringo
I want to take a moment here and address the elephant in the room that the so called Brazilian Gringo is not in Brazil. To complicate things further I’ve been intensively studying Russian recently, which draws into question where my allegiances really lie. For the past few weeks I’ve been taking Russian classes at a […]