SAO PAULO, Brazil — Songs that Rita Lee recorded back in the 1960s have suddenly emerged as hipster favorites on college radio stations in the United States. Beck christened one of his releases ...

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 ...

A tanned, beautiful young woman in a skimpy bikini walks through the lapping sea waters on the edge of a sun-soaked beach. Soft music plays, its shifting beat following her footsteps. It's a cliché, ...

Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician and composer, has died at 75. Brazil's queen of rock, Rita Lee, passed away this week. She was 75 years old. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has this ...