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I could even hear funk carioca coming from the cell phones of children walking past.
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They were wearing jeans instead of ballet dresses, and were listening to Rio's famous funk carioca music.
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As a teenager he found his voice through the emerging music phenomenon of the slums - funk carioca.
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Brazilian funk started in the 1980s in Rio's suburbs and shantytowns -also known as favelas.
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Four years earlier, Daleste started composing Brazilian funk songs that addressed crime, weapons and the murder of policemen.
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A giant conga-line of athletes snaked around the stadium to the cheers of thousands of fans who danced in the stands to Brazilian funk music.
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Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
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Hordes of tourists poured from the vans, and the favela funk masters let us pass without so much as batting an eye.
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"I assume you ladies are hitting up the favela funk party, right?" he asked.