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 ...

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 ...

Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler made history when he won the best original song Oscar for 'Al Otro Lado del Río' from the Che Guevara biopic 'The Motorcycle Diaries.' By Lisa de los Reyes ...

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 ...