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. He suggested that Salvador do something similar, but Salvador refused to simply copy. He created a major departure from jazz, interpreting funk through the prism of samba with his band Grupo Abolição, with whom they also played samba funk and samba soul. Grupo Abolição's work in blending samba and funk influenced the formation of
Banda Black Rio in 1976, which was named after the 1970s counterculture Black Rio. == Ballroom dance ==