When Diamond Rio released their debut self-titled album in 1991, they made history. The album's lead single, "Meet In the Middle," spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. At ...

On Nov. 1, 1982, Duran Duran released "Rio" as a single in the U.K. The title track of the band's 1982 LP quickly became one of the Birmingham band's signature songs, a confident mission statement ...

View of Rio de Janeiro. Photo by sandeepachetan.com (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) via Flickr With the summer Olympics in full swing, I wanted to highlight two great songs about the country as well as the carioca ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - "Tall and tan and young and lovely..." You've heard of her. The Girl From Ipanema. You might have come across the bossa nova classic while on hold on the phone, during a long elevator ...

Brazilian pop star Anitta has released a new song, “Girl From Rio,” along with an accompanying music video. The track finds Anitta putting her own spin on the Brazilian bossa nova classic, “The Girl ...

The Academy Award-nominated songwriter, best known for Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror," talks about this year's two-song contest and how "Real In Rio" came to life. By Shirley Halperin Siedah ...

Although there are instrumental songs that are synonymous with NBC's coverage of the Olympic Games, NBC has partnered with pop superstar Katy Perry for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics with a new ...

Thousands of young people gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the release of the official song for World Youth Day Rio 2013, titled "Esperanca do Amanhecer" or "Hope of the Morning." The song was composed ...

The Rio Olympics have given us lots of bad things, like green water, people shooting at buses, uncomfortably casual sexism and a continued ignorance over the plight of poor citizens who are being ...

Featuring one new song, “Fun!,” and the fourteen previously released tracks with new arrangements, Elegant Ensemble is brave in its exhibition of what ‘new’ can mean. These songs, previously ...

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