A knee injury changed everything for Diogo Nogueira, a sidelined football player who decided to take up the family business—samba—when sports didn't pan out (his father is noted composer João Nogueira). Nogueira is an old hand at this music, and you can hear that in his matter-of-fact tenor and the cool, confident way he wields the genre's innate mayhem to suit his own (often romantic) purposes. The accident might have been bad for football, but it was great for samba.