Funk is a music genre that originated in Rio and is inspired by social consciousness. Women have been overlooked in the genre, but a new generation of women funk artists are changing that.
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Song Du Jour #28, Bachson 5
As the video below puts it perfectly, “Jackson 5 and Bach were funky way before Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk”,” we’d say even funkier, by far.
Like hip hop in American cities, funk carioca was born in Brazil’s inner cities, and now has arrived in one of Rio’s most prestigious theaters. Yet police remain wary of what’s behind the beats.