Samba funk

Brazilian singers and bands such as Tim Maia, Jorge Ben and Banda Black Rio have also pioneered into the genre. Samba funk is a hybrid musical subgenre that combines elements of Brazilian samba with American funk, its rhythm mostly composed by keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and percussion, creating a hybrid and contagious sound. The bass, drums and guitar lines transition between the two styles. Samba funk uses instrumentation, timbres, and effects common in 1970s American funk bands, such as the Rhodes electric piano, clavinet, and Moog and Oberheim analog synthesizers. Musical effects such as the wah-wah on the guitar also contribute to the genre's sound. From the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the country lived under a repressive military dictatorship, which was accompanied by a strong countercultural reaction. Dom Salvador was an instrumentalist, arranger and composer who took part in the musical effervescence of Rio de Janeiro after the emergence of bossa nova, and combined Brazilian samba with American jazz, participating in the creation of samba jazz. In 1969, Dom Salvador's producer at CBS returned from a trip to the USA with a number of funk and soul records, including Kool & the Gang, Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown.