(Silva & Cavaquinho)

The Turma do Estácio, was a samba group that frequented samba rounds (samba de roda) towards the end of the 1920s, in Rio. The group is seen as starting samba carioca as we know it today, both in Brazil and worldwide.

This type of samba solidified itself quickly as samba carioca as it injected a different kind of cadence into the Bahian samba, taken to Rio by the tias baianas (Bahian ‘aunts’), which was known as more of a maxixe than modern samba. The Estácio Group imposed a more rythymic samba, with instruments like the surdo (large bass drum), tamborines and cuícas (friction drum), which were joined by pandeiros (specialized tamborines) and chocalhos (rattles).

(Marçal & Bide)

In 1928, Ismael Silva, Bide, Mestre Marçal, Bucy Moreira, Baiaco, Brancura, Mano Rubem and Mano Edgar founded Deixa Falar* at the Morro de São Carlos, considered the first Brazilian…