Samba-rock

Samba-rock, or samba soul, is a genre which emerged in the late 1960s in urban Afro-Brazilian communities in Southeastern Brazil, particularly São Paulo. It originated from Samba, combining it with instruments and rhythms from American genres such as Rock, Jazz and Soul. The origins of samba-rock are in dance parties in the largely black peripheral favelas of São Paulo, though it later spread to other southern Brazilian cities. In the late 1950s, DJs began playing Rock & Roll, jazz and Rhythm & Blues records in addition to samba music, and over the next few years, partygoers fused the various dances into one single dance style, becoming known as samba-rock, "rock" referring to American popular music in general. Samba-rock as a singular style of music was pioneered by artists such as Jorge Ben (though he rejected the label samba-rock himself), Trio Mocotó and Branca di Neve towards the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s, developing in parallel with MPB and Tropicália. These artists added African-American soul and Funk to the existing influences, and established distinct guitar rhythms such as "tumxicutumxicutum" and "3-in-2". The style is known as samba soul in Rio de Janeiro, pioneered there by artists like Tim Maia and Wilson Simonal, and Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul developed a closely related style called suingue or samba-suingue. Samba-rock musicians remained popular through the 1980s. In the 2000s, samba-rock was "revitalised" by bands such as Sandália de Prata and Clube do Balanço as part of a general wave of revival of older genres of music in Brazil. These bands introduced Electronic elements and also introduced samba-rock to middle class audiences, outside of its traditional popularity in black favela communities. The style was declared an intangible heritage of São Paulo municipality in 2016. AKA: SuingueSamba-suingue