Azymuth built samba-funk that hip-hop STOLE — and never paid

Novos Baianos WORSHIPPED Hendrix in the dictatorship — João Gilberto made them Brazil's greatest

Liniker sang samba — and BECAME the first trans artist to win a Grammy

Elis Regina sang about Brazil's exiles — it BECAME the anthem that freed them

Groucho Marx put a 1917 Brazilian choro in his film — it SOLD two million copies

Olodum CHANGED Paul Simon's most famous album — drums recorded in Salvador

Marisa Monte CHOSE samba in Brazil's dictatorship — Philip Glass and David Byrne followed

David Byrne put her first on his Brazil album — she had DIED six years before

Quincy Jones DISCOVERED bossa nova in 1962 — Austin Powers stole it from him

Lambada from Pará's favelas outsold Madonna — France STOLE it, Bolivia won

Ary Barroso INVENTED a genre — under dictatorship, his samba conquered Hollywood

Favela to Billboard #27 — Sepultura CONQUERED America with an indigenous tribe

MPB songwriter Tim Bernardes CONQUERED America first — then Fleet Foxes called

Stevie Wonder PLAYED harmonica for Djavan — Brazil's most-loved Grammy secret

Pelé won the 1970 World Cup to this song. A DICTATORSHIP turned it into propaganda.

Bossa nova CONQUERED Billboard in 1966 — Walter Wanderley's stolen summer hit

He TAUGHT bossa nova's greatest stars — then Blue Note flew him to America

A bossa nova GUITARIST Dizzy found first — then the Charlie Brown Christmas trio

Choro INVENTED jazz — Brazil got there first, 7,000 km from New Orleans

Astrud Gilberto sang for $120 — Getz STOLE her royalties and kept the Grammy

A forró master ARRANGED Miriam Makeba's biggest hit — Belafonte hired him for 12 years

Brazil's Marcos Valle SAMPLED by Joey Bada$$ — the bossa nova king 20 rappers discovered

Arthur Verocai's Brazilian MPB album SAMPLED by american hip-hop — he never knew

Rio de Janeiro WROTE the Narcos theme — stole an Emmy nomination from Hollywood

Brazil's Deodato STOLE Kubrick's theme — MPB arranger hit #2 on Billboard

Brazil's cuíca HUNTED lions in Africa — soul of Carnival samba since 1928

Chico Science invented Brazil's 90s punk — a BROKEN Fiat seatbelt killed him at 30

Brazil EXILED Caetano and Gil — they discovered reggae in London and changed music forever

Egberto Gismonti studied Boulanger then INVENTED a guitar — ECM Records' most mysterious signing

How Brazilian samba INVADED jazz fusion — Miles Davis hired this couple first

Vinicius de Moraes wrote Sinatra's lyrics — Brazil's dictatorship EXPELLED him for drinking

Carmen Miranda's HOLLYWOOD samba was INVENTED by Noel Rosa — TB killed him at 26 with 250 songs

Renato Russo recorded his FINAL album DYING of AIDS — Brazil's rock star died 21 days later

1 MILLION records in FALSETTO — Brazilian rock star Ney Matogrosso DEFIED the dictatorship

Heitor Villa-Lobos STOLE Bach for choro and samba — Stokowski FLEW him to America 1944

Tina Turner and a samba singer EXILED by dictatorship — BBC's Voice of the Millennium

Naná Vasconcelos EXILED himself from Brazil — CONQUERED jazz with a capoeira bow

Rita Lee was KICKED out by her boyfriend — Brazil's FIRST rock queen died on top

Sertanejo OUTSOLD American pop — Brazil's BIGGEST genre Hollywood never heard

Brazil's biggest rock star DIED of AIDS at 32 — and forced a country to look

David Byrne RESCUED a forgotten Brazilian in 1990 — Tom Zé came back stronger

Geraldo Vandré wrote ONE protest song in 1968 — the dictatorship banned it for 11 years

Luiz Gonzaga turned a 1947 song about DROUGHT into Brazil's most-danced genre

A Brazilian band sold 3 million records in 6 months — then a plane CRASHED and killed all five

Gilberto Gil was JAILED for singing — 34 years later he ran Brazil's Ministry of Culture

Brazil tried to BAN this band from leaving — they CONQUERED Paris in 1922 anyway

An Amazon genre OUTSOLD Sony ten to one — and piracy was the whole plan

Caetano Veloso was BOOED off stage in 1968 — three months later the police came for him

African royal courts SURVIVED 4,000 miles of slavery — they still march through Brazil today

He CODED protest songs past military censors — they banned him after 100,000 copies sold

Sergio Mendes CONQUERED America with one song — then the Black Eyed Peas brought him back

Wayne Shorter FLEW to Brazil to record with Milton Nascimento — and changed jazz forever

Black Orpheus WON Cannes AND the Oscars in 1959 — and gave America bossa nova

Baile funk was CRIMINALIZED in Brazil — Anitta, Diplo and Beyoncé made it global anyway

Frevo INVENTED punk rock in 1907 — umbrellas hidden as weapons

Jorge Ben wrote a samba at 23 — Sergio Mendes took it to Billboard and Will.i.am brought it back

Enslaved Africans invented a FIGHT disguised as a dance — one instrument tells it when to attack

The Brazilian government tried to BAN Michael Jackson from filming in a favela — he filmed anyway

Samba was ILLEGAL until 1930 — now it's the world's largest art form

A car washer in Ipanema RECORDED his first album at 65 — and became Brazil's greatest samba poet