They’re spending months at the samba schools that during Rio’s world-famous Carnival will dance for more than an hour through Rio’s 700-meter (2,300-foot) Sambadrome, delighting 70,000 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- It's a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company's drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles. But when night falls, she ...

THEY are the gorgeous, glittering Samba dancers who steal the show at the greatest party on the planet. The queens and muses who light up the jaw-dropping, heart-pounding Rio Carnival are once agai… ...

Performers from the Salgueiro samba school dance during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, early Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Credit: AP/Bruna Prado ...

There’s plenty of that as the crowd of Cariocas (Rio locals) shake hips and move their feet on the worn, wooden dance floor to an eight-piece band playing irresistible samba.

Samba is typically heard on U.S. cable news exactly once a year as ambient audio in the background of coverage of the yearly Carnival celebrations in big Brazilian cities like Rio, Sao Paulo ...

A BRAZILIAN samba dancer who caused controversy by dancing naked on the streets of Rio de Janeiro has been found dead at home. Tuane Rocha, who was just 38, was discovered lifeless in her bath in J… ...

Samba dancers perform during the inaugural Vegas Loves Brazil festival in April 2013 at the Clark County Amphitheater. This year's festival is set for April 5-6 at the Rio and scheduled to include ...

The Prince of Wales has been sampling Brazilian culture by doing the samba with Rio de Janiero street dancers. His skimpily-dressed partners on the outskirts of Rio were Joana D'Arc, 30, and Patricia ...

In this Jan. 27, 2020 photo, Jessica Hahn-Chaplin applies make up before a rehearsal of the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.