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Só Sucesso De - Vol. 32
March 19, 2020
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Musica Popular Amazonense
Música Popular Amazonense (often abbreviated as MPA) is the contemporary popular-music scene of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, centered in Manaus and shaped by the cultural life of the Amazon River basin. It blends MPB songwriting and urban pop/rock with regional rhythms such as toada (from the boi-bumbá tradition), carimbó and lambada from the wider North, plus forró, samba and strands of local “caboclo” folklore. Typical songs celebrate riverine life, Indigenous and caboclo identities, the Parintins festival imagery (Garantido and Caprichoso), nature and environmental themes, while adopting modern arrangements, electric instrumentation and studio production. The result is a colorful, danceable and melodic style that sounds unmistakably Brazilian yet strongly rooted in the Amazon’s stories, grooves and timbres.
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