2 hours-no, make that 3 hours-of work on a no-integer Pentium, with 64 megs and a 28K phone connection...well I don't have the push to put all this in a narrative paragraph. so here's all these links.
it began with a cold call at Rootster
http://www.crammed.be/zir/13/index.htm
http://www.rootsworld.com/wmce/wmce.html/font>
http://www.rootsworld.com/wmce/wmce0207.html
http://www.crammed.be/zir/02/zir02.htm
http://www.crammed.be/zir/artists/virginia.htm
http://www.crammed.be/zir/04/index.htm

greenman magazine world music reviews

Nankuru Naisa BobBrozman and Takahashi Matsuoyura
sandy bull main mind opener
world music in deutsch
brozman 12bar
Ana Carolina:
Ana Rita Joana Iracema e Carolina
Andrea Marquee

and the exciting Virginia Rodriguesagain.
names that should/would be here are in the lists at allbrazilian and other places I'll probably get around to linking here eventually