'''Soul Grand Prix''' was a Brazilian soul music group. It formed{{When|date=September 2022}} from musicians at Clube Renascença in Rio de Janeiro,<ref name=hanchard>Hanchard, Michael George. ''[https://archive.org/details/orpheuspowermovi0000hanc/page/112 Orpheus and Power: The Movimiento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1945–1988]'', p. 113. Princeton University Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0-691-03292-0}}. {{registration required}}</ref> including Dom Filó and his associates.<ref>Dunn, Christopher. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=65X-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164 Contracultura: alternative arts and social transformation in authoritarian Brazil]''<!--Capitalized as such in the book itself.-->, p. 164. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. {{ISBN|9781469628516}}. {{LCCN|2016019440}}.</ref> The group soon initiated a new phase in Rio de Janeiro funk culture in 1975, which celebrated Blackness and Black culture.<ref name=micfiends>Yudice, George. "The Funkication of Rio". In ''[https://archive.org/details/microphonefiends00ross/page/206/ Microphone Fiends]'', p. 206. London Routledge, 1994. {{registration required}}</ref> This period came to be known as Black Rio in the media.<ref name=yudice>Yúdice, George. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=gBO044A-CaUC&pg=PA124 The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era]'', p. 124. Duke University Press, 2004.</ref>
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 large 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.<ref name=micfiends/><ref name=yudice/> The group sometimes censored their own visual presentations however, to avoid offending white viewers.<ref name=hanchard/> In the middle of the 1970s, the Brazilian secret police began to associate soul with underground leftist movements and infiltrated a soul dance held by Soul Grand Prix together with Black Power.<ref name=alberto>Alberto, Paulina L. [https://archive.org/details/hahr0000unse/page/3 "When Rio Was ''Black'': Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil"]. ''The Hispanic American Historical Review'', volume 89, issue 1, February 2009.</ref>{{rp|9-10}} Dom Filó and his cousin "Nirto" were later incarcerated.<ref name=alberto/>{{rp|14}}
Black Rio influenced the funkeiro culture in Brazil who still today host parties to dance to today's funk and sample music from the past to create modernized music.<ref>Ambassador. Brazilian sound clash: Soul Grand Prix vs Soul Layzer. http://soulspectrum.blogspot.com/2007/11/brazilian-sound-clash-soul-layzer-vs.html</ref>
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