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Video Samba gets new rhythms 100 years after first recording
Agence France-Presse 17 Dec 2016, 10:44 am Print
One hundred years after the first ever recording of samba -- a song called "Pelo telefone" ("On the telephone") -- musicians like percussionist Walmir Pimentel and the all-female group Moça Prosa are helping to rejuvenate the art form.
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