More than 25 years ago, Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema swayed the world to the sinuous sound of bossa nova. Now a new generation of musicians is discovering the old seducer: Brazil. Some of the world's leading pop stars -- David Byrne, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel among them -- are intent on weaving novel strands of ethnic music into a fresh, global sound. They have been flying down to Rio for inspiration and coming back laden with rhythm.
Earlier this year Byrne, the leader of Talking Heads, assembled a sampling of 1970s Brazilian pop on the Fly/Sire Records album...
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