27 October 2026 - Bonde do Rolê - Solta o Frango

I spent my Sunday night talking with Brazilians and tweeting about the Brazilian election, and I spent a lot of yesterday continuing those conversations.

It's honestly not a country I knew a lot about - and I still don't, but I am a quick study.  And Portuguese has always fascinated me.  I really wanted to post a Brazilian song today.

I really didn't expect it to be this one.

Bonde do Rolê is a group I've posted about before, and I have to be honest - I thought I had posted about the 2007 single - from their album With Lasers - so many years ago. It has long been a favorite song of mine, in any language.  The fact that they happen to be from Curitiba, Brazil.  

Marina Ribatski - who did not stick with the group long enough but long enough to make that classic album - was so charismatic and truly did enjoy and go crazy ("Solta o Frango" is slang that means this). 

You can see in this live performance that Marina really knew how to command an audience.

But by the end of 2007, Marina had left the band.  

The group replaced her with TWO women - Ana Bernardino and Laura Taylor. In this performance from Coachella 2008, Laura takes lead.  

Bernardino would later leave the band. 

Anyway, they were fine with these two woman, but they were better when they weren't singing Marina's songs....