Brazilian pop music and dance. Modern Brazilian music is often referred to as the umbrella term Música Popular Brasileira, or MPB for short. Its precursor was the tropicália movement, sometimes also called tropicalismo. Musicians like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben Jor started mixing traditional music with psychedelic rock at the end of the sixties. Because of their critical lyrics, most tropicalismo musicians were boycotted by the military regime. At the same time a number of MPB icons appear, such as Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento and Elis Regina, who on the one hand lean on traditional genres, but on the other hand are not afraid to experiment with more modern styles. This line of musicians with their own characteristic sound, continues until this moment. Marisa Monte and Chico César give the MPB a new sound in the nineties. Also in the field of dance, Brazil has more to offer than the samba alone. The lamba rage of the eighties finds its origin in the northeast of that country, where African and Caribbean influences are great. The axé, a stirring mix of Brazilian reggae and percussion, also comes from that region. Daniela Mercury and Ivete Sangalo have made this music popular since the nineties.