英语听力：自然百科 从桑巴到巴萨诺瓦 Samba To Bossa—14（在线收听） |
Luiz Gonzaga you can compare him with Bob Marley in reggae, because he really did the melting of the style, you know. And it became very well known because he recorded it, he played it on the radio in the 40s, / 50s, so he came up with the new rhythm, popular rhythm. It was a kind/ of the thing / Bob Marley did with reggae intimism . Luiz Gonzaga was the son of a farm worker, whose life was transformed after he had appeared on a radio show in Rio. It was hosted by Ary Barroso, but Gonzaga proved that Barroso’s nationalistic samba could be matched by dance music from the northern countryside.
Forro music didn't become something rival to samba, but let’s say something as big as samba inside Brazil, but not outside Brazil, of course, samba had Carmen Miranda, for example as, you know, something that promoted samba, even in the Hollywood movies, but Forro is as much from the people of Brazil, from the real people of Brazil as samba..
This was a new era of migration as workers from the poor farmlands of the northeast moved south to the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to look for work. Luiz Gonzaga wrote dance songs and sang about the lives of the migrants and those they left behind. |
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