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 ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1982, the British rock group Duran Duran were working on their second album at AIR Studios in London. At the time, the five-member band of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Andy ...

Getting the rights to use the melody of Jobim's 1960s classic was no picnic, but it was worth it, as the single is quickly rising at American Top 40 stations, even as it stands as one of the Brazilian ...

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 ...