BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR: At South Africa's ninth international arts festival, a celebration of the music of two countries thousands of miles apart but united in soul. CNN's Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports.</s>CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In Brazil she is known as the queen of samba, the voice of Brazil, Beth Carvalho, diva of in indigenous. Samba to her the origin of everything in Brazil. The queen brought her band, her sound and her message here to this South African township, and the music students who came to listen loved it all. Carvalho tells the eager listeners that samba is the greatest expression of the Brazilian population, that the majority of samba composers come from poor communities, favelas, that can be compared with the squatter camps in South Africa, and that as in South Africa, it was in the favelas that resistance was born, along with humor and happiness. The queen is here to show the similarities in the musical traditions and to return to South Africans what they originally gave Brazil: taken from Africa by millions of slaves who survived the crossing of the Atlantic to Brazil, and who then shared their rhythms, dances and harmonies -- like these.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Music transcends all boundaries. It's an international language.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, it's common, our culture and theirs. It's one thing, the chant. I mean, it's one and the same thing. There's no difference. It's wonderful, out-of-this-world.</s>HUNTER-GAULT: Charlayne Hunter-Gault,
Samba Honored at South African Arts Festival