Samba funk is a musical subgenre that fuses Brazilian samba and American funk, created in the late 1960s by pianist Dom Salvador and the Brazilian band Grupo Abolição (which later gave rise to Banda Black Rio) and based on a blend of the binary measures of samba and the quaternary measures of funk, which had recently arrived on the Brazilian music market.

Brazilian singers and bands such as Tim Maia, Jorge Ben and Banda Black Rio have also pioneered into the genre.

[2] Samba funk is a hybrid musical subgenre that combines elements of Brazilian samba with American funk, its rhythm mostly composed by keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and percussion, creating a hybrid and contagious sound.

[6] From the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, the country lived under a repressive military dictatorship, which was accompanied by a strong countercultural reaction.

[7] In 1969, Dom Salvador's producer at CBS returned from a trip to the USA with a number of funk and soul records, including Kool & the Gang, Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown.