Genre: Latin

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Os Gringos do Samba (The Strangers of the Samba) is the perfect name for the band: it gives us the freedom to do such things as playing other, non-samba types of Brazilian music, and give our own twists to songs. The band has a long history and was founded at the end of 2006. Over the years, the lineup of the band has changed. Most of the people who left, are still friends of the band, and may occasionally join at a concert. As it is now, the group is a colourful mixture of six Brazilians and six Europeans, based in the Netherlands with a deep passion for Brazilian music. What binds us together is that we love to share this passion and the tremendous fun of making Brazilian music with our audience. Any audience: be it at a festival, such as the Jazz Festival Delft, a birthday celebration of a friend, big wedding parties, official receptions or anniversaries of any kind, Os Gringos do Samba will make people smile and dance! Despite the term Samba in the band’s name, we play a selection of the enormous variety of Brazilian rhythms other than Samba, such as Forró, Frevo, Carimbo en Samba-Reggae. The connoisseurs will recognize famous and also more intimate songs of some of Brazil’s greatest artists. In this way, in all modesty, Os Gringos do Samba hopes to be a good ambassador of the rich Brazilian musical culture.