Soul Grand Prix

Soul Grand Prix initiated a new phase in Rio de Janeiro funk culture in 1975, a phase which celebrated [Blackness] and Black culture. Soul Grand Prix echoed the sounds of James Brown, Kool and the Gang and Wilson Pickett. In order to have large dances, Soul Grand Prix would put together huge sound systems, sometimes using over a hundred speakers and generating crowds of over ten thousand of Brazil's youth. Soul Grand Prix dances used mixed media, films, photos, and posters to inculcate the "Black is beautiful" style period. This period influenced the funkeiro culture in [Brazil] who still today host huge parties to dance to today's funk and sample music from the past to create new modernized music.