For other Brazilian singers he writes hit after hit, but in his own music he connects technological dance-futurism with traditional Afro-Brazilian rhythms.

Exuberant, indefatigable and virtuosic, the dancers, singers and drummers of this superb company from Salvador, Brazil's original capital, exploded with the Afro-Brazilian rhythms that are its special heritage.

The new songs by this mother of four are tinged with Afro-Brazilian rhythms and speak of spiritual struggle.

Driven by the percussionist Scott Kettner and steered by the lead singer Liliana Araújo, the band expertly navigates Afro-Brazilian rhythms.

Mr. Santtana, a young singer-songwriter from Bahia, has his circuits open to the international web of Afro-Brazilian rhythm, West African high life, Cuban funk, reggae and electronics.

"This collection leans toward lighter pop music using Afro-Brazilian rhythms."

She also strengthened the Bahian connection of "O Que a Baiana Tem," as additional drummers joined her to play Afro-Brazilian rhythms.

The band members usually create their songs influenced by jazz, rock, specially Jethro Tull, and afro-Brazilian rhythms.

The tropicalists tossed together Afro-Brazilian rhythms and rock guitars, modernist poetry and advertising jingles, bossa novas and psychedelia; deliberately and gleefully they warped history and geography.