Samba de breque is a subgenre of samba that emerged in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1930s and early 1940s.[1][2]
The main characteristic of the subgenre is "breque", a Brazilian term for "brake".[3] In other words, it is a samba with sudden stops, usually of a humorous character, in which the singer makes spoken comments.[2][1]
The singer Moreira da Silva consolidated himself as the great name of this style of samba. The first success of the subgenre was "Acertei no milhar", a samba by Wilson Batista and Geraldo Pereira.[4][5]
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Lopes, Nei; Simas, Luiz Antonio (2015). Dicionário da História Social do Samba (in Brazilian Portuguese) (2ª ed.). Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira.
