Accomplishments and Influence
Carioca people have invented a few sports. The most famous are footvolley and beach tennis.
Cariocas are credited with creating the bossa nova dance, MPB, the samba dance and funk carioca, as well as a number of famous rhythms in Brazil.
Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, João Gilberto, Toquinho, Elis Regina, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia are some of the singers who are inspired by carioca culture. Tropicália is a Brazilian musical movement with connections to carioca.
Famous cariocas in English language film include Brazilian "bombshell" Carmen Miranda (a Portuguese woman who grew up in Rio de Janeiro) and her famous fruit hat appearing first in 1943 as part of the costume of a singer named Dorita in the film The Gang's All Here.
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