Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The pantheon of Brazilian music greats is as long and difficult to enter as that of any country in ...

Sometimes Jorge Ben Jor thinks big. One of the Brazilian composer’s most famous songs honors the Taj Mahal. Other times, he thinks small. His “Spyro Gyra” is the most rousing tune ever written about ...

Jorge Duílio Lima Menezes (born March 22, 1939) is a Brazilian popular musician, performing under the stage name Jorge Ben Jor since the 1980s, though commonly known by his former stage name Jorge Ben ...

If Brazilian superstar Jorge Ben Jor had only contributed his deliriously propulsive 4/4 samba beat to the world's rhythmic lexicon he would have fully justified his vast international following. But ...

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I’m an investigative reporter for The Times’s Business desk. I’m on leave writing a book on the U.S. tax system. All the solo writing means I’m listening to even more music than usual. (And watching ...

The timing was unfortunate. Just as the painful memories of Friday morning begin to fade, who should reappear in London after a 12-year absence but the Brazilian musician most closely identified with ...

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