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Maybe it's the onset of summer, but I've been in a samba frame of mind lately. And for me, the first name in samba is Cartola. He's not only responsible for composing some of the most melodically beguiling pop songs of the previous century, he's also one of the great personal stories. Born in 1908, Cartola was one of the founders, in the 1920s, of the Mangueira samba school, one of the first and certainly to this day the most prestigious samba school. Throughout the Thir... MORE
