Beth Carvalho

Beth Carvalho’s Traço de União is not just an album—it’s an act of cultural insistence. Released in 1994, this late-era samba masterwork sees Beth not mellowing with age, but sharpening—her voice seasoned with smoke and sweat, her message steeped in roots, resistance, and radiant rhythm. It’s samba as spiritual inheritance and street-level protest, tied together with a red thread of feminine defiance.

Traço de União is Beth Carvalho as high priestess and cultural archivist, stitching together centuries of samba with both elegance and fire. It’s provocative not because it’s loud, but because it dares to center Black Brazilian identity, feminine strength, and community memory in a genre too often diluted by pop polish. This is samba as weapon, as embrace, as whisper that hits like a drum.