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Elza Soares—"Rio De Janeiro" Video Elza Moares released her first single in 1959. A tumultuous music career brought success and failure, but after a resurgence in the 1990s the BBC awarded her Singer of the Millennium in 2000. She was married to Brazil soccer legend GarrinchaWelcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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- Ayo—"Down On My Knees" - The daughter of a Nigerian father and Roma gypsy mother, Ayo is a Nigerian-German singer whose acoustic pop-soul has found success in Europe. This song appears on her 2006 album Joyful.
- Elza Soares—"Rio De Janeiro" - Elza Moares released her first single in 1959. A tumultuous music career brought success and failure, but after a resurgence in the 1990s the BBC awarded her Singer of the Millennium in 2000. She was married to Brazil soccer legend Garrincha
- Gogol Bordello—"Start Wearing Purple" - Led by Ukrainian-born wildman Eugene Hutz, New York's Gogol Bordello pioneered the "gypsy punk" sound. This track, originally from the group's 1999 debut, Voi-La Intruder, found new life in a 2008 ad campaign for Yahoo!
- Gotan Project—"Diferente" - Parisian trio Gotan Project gives Argentine tango a cool, electronic makeover in this video from their 2006 release Lunático.
- Manu Chao—"La Vida Tombola" - French-Spanish musician Manu Chao pays a rumba tribute to Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the greatest soccer star of all time. The video contains clips of Maradona from the 2008 documentary on the star.
- Manu Chao—"Me Llaman Calle" - "Me Llaman La Calle" was voted by Time magazine one of the 10 Best Songs of 2007. The song was originally written for a 2005 Spanish music but wasn't released as a record until 2007. It combines flamenco and rumba sounds with a pop melody.
- Rabbi Shergill—"Bilqis" - Rabbi Shergill is an Indian musician whose music draws on guitar rock as well as Sufi and Punjabi folk music. His father was a Sikh preacher and his mother a college principal and Punjabi poet.
- Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings—"100 Days, 100 Nights" - In the late 90's, after a stint as a corrections officer at Rikers Island prison, Sharon Jones began working with musicians who would later make up her current backing band, the Dap-Kings. Fitting their sound, this video was shot on two vintage cameras.
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