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• Nora was nine when her first Latin American song went viral. She didn’t speak the language

  12-02-2024 15:00
  
  The young French singer became an overnight sensation with her brother and father, singing classic songs about desire and loss that she learned phoneticallySibling Latin music sensations Isaac et Nora aren’t easy to pin down for an interview. For starters, they live in the pottery-making town of Quimper, in the part of France that juts into the Atlantic. Secondly, the time difference between Australia and France means it’s often past their bedtime.Viral phenomena often quickly flame
  
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• ‘We love the adrenaline’: Brazil’s illegal hot-air ballooning scene

  12-02-2024 07:00
  
  Competing teams race to covertly release banned kaleidoscopic creations on Rio outskirtsCats chased shadows through the pre-dawn gloom as the men hit the streets of suburban Rio and set off towards their objective under the cover of darkness. “I’ve not slept,” said one early riser, a bushy-bearded office worker called Arthur Araújo, as he emerged from his home to fulfil a “dream” one year in the making.The group’s convoy navigated deserted mountain road
  
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