…for the Olympics in 2016: so here's Brazil's former Minister of Culture (yes, Gilberto Gil) giving a big hug – Aquele Abraço – to Rio, from 1969:

Not his most well-known song, mind: that'd probably be this.

[Strange how Rio's most famous - I think we might even say iconic - song was sung in such a deadpan style, by someone so completely unflamboyant. The original cool, I suppose] 

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