The capital and largest city of Angola - Luanda - is home to a diverse group of styles including zouk, Angolan merengue, kilapanda, semba, a genre with roots intertwined with that of Brazilian samba music, Kizomba and Kuduro.

Aṣíkò music has its origins in the music of Sierra Leonean repatriates, from the West Indian colonies, who themselves had been influenced by Afro-Brazilian samba music.

While samba music continues to act as the national unifying agent in Rio, Funk Carioca found a strong community following in Brazil.

Mar de Copas's song "Samba" was inspired by Argentinean samba music.

The Brazilian singer, who has been a star in her homeland since the mid-1960's, makes more direct connections between samba, soul music and reggae than most of her compatriots.

Musically the album was an evolvement from Hellström's debut and a deepening of his widespread influences containing among others Brazilian samba music and Swedish folk ballad singers Evert Taube and Cornelis Vreeswijk.

It is so commonly used in radio-oriented samba music that in the absence of a cuíca player, Brazilian singers or other musicians imitate the sound of the cuíca with their voices.

Charlie Byrd (1925-1999) did nylon-string guitar recordings with saxophone player Stan Getz which helped popularize Brazilian bossa nova and samba music in North America.

This album features Brazilian samba music heavily and features one of Madlib's interests in Latin Jazz.

During his years in Salvador, Gil also encountered the music of songwriter Dorival Caymmi, who he says represented to him the "beach-oriented" samba music of Salvador.