Cris Vianna for a Brazil Carnival 2015

By

Sampson I.M Onwuka

 

Brazil is historically known for World Cup Championship including Beach football championship, Basket Ball Championship, World Trade Centers, Super models and stars of all types, and is well for its rich spiritual centers. Brazil – especially Rio Janeiro is a custodian of International rain forest organization and well renowned for its Carnival. 

It has a rich tapestry of festive cultures and boast of the peoples of all kinds going back to the arrivals of the first Europeans. The Brazilian Carnivals take place every late February and early March of every year and is also one of the hallmarks of Brazil’s culture, landscape, and a drive-in for economy and the market.  

Here we can consider the Brazilian actress and model Cris Vianna. She like many of Afro-Brazilians actors and models represent the full extent of that culture and the Carnival. Although the costumes differ every year but her presence - like the presence of many actors is the Chief focus of the X-ray into Brazil and its culture.

Cris Vianna - Cultural Icon.

While we can speak of the Costumes for the Carnival and the cultural issues regarding the fashion and the parade, especially the parades, that an expert better explains it separately that the parades represents "...have become the visual centerpiece of Carnival – and they have become big business. The Schools all originated in the slums of Rio and, in conjunction with the Rio Tourist Bureau, have staged the parade on the three nights prior to Ash Wednesday.”  Michael L. Eakin 1996

Eakin maintained that, “The Schools are year round social clubs that gear their activities towards the climax of the parade; with membership in the thousands, the big schools design costumes and floats, practice their dancing, and develop a new Samba Song each year in preparation for the big moment and their Samba School.” 

Northeastern Brazil – as the most African of Brazilian Culture – covering parts of Bahia, Pernanbuco and Maran invoke as much geographical history as the history of Brazil. The origins of the celebration of life leading and the Brazilian Carnival leading up to the lenten season in Christian communities all of the world can be traced to influences from elsewhere - Africa, Native Indians and the Revelry tradition of some European culture. 



The Catholic Church like most historians agree, influenced these attitudes to religion with the Africans bringing in their religion from Africa, Natives adding a dimension of their cultural life to the influences of the Church. Brazil cultural definition took a new and determined meaning.

Of religious fellowship in Brazil three stand out ; Candouble, Macumba, Umbandu, and they originated from Nigeria and Angola; the Yoruba, Dahoman people of W.A, but the Lundu is a dance of Angolan divination and it evolved into Samba.

The dances includes the fantasias, elaborate costumes, Sambodromo – world’s longest football stadium and the music cover, folk, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Country, and Rhythm and Blues

Oxala, the god of creation and procreation, was equated with Jesus and Exu---with otehr forms of divinity all of which invade the Sambbodromo.