"dance band" was a bit misleading wording from my side, it's "danseband" - like this cheesy stuff, which was ubiquitous to Sweden, Norway, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzqRKmZiGI0

Got it. We also lack tango, but we've got plenty of cheese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBdOzQf_I68

You can trace a lineage from that German (?) cheese to Brazilian música sertaneja (country music), as in "Rumo À Goiânia" (Road to Goiânia), this rendition by Leonardo and Zezé di Camargo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEjGy20QQHk

My parents moved to one of the referenced towns, Uberlândia (Land for All) in the mid-1950s, and then to Goiânia itself later on. (Then Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Brasília. "Home" though always was Phoenix, AZ.)

Edit: cities, title translation

For one more Brazilian country classic, "Asa Branca" (White Wing) ... Luiz Gonzaga - Asa Branca ft. Fagner, Sivuca, Guadalupe ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFSHg2hxbc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFSHg2hxbc .

One of the comments there: "Sem dúvida, é considerado um hino para os brasileiros, principalmente para população do Nordeste." ... "Without doubt, [this song] is considered a Hymn for Brazilians, especially for those in the Northeast [region of Brazil]." Northeastern Brazil lives through seven- or fourteen-year cycles of some rain then long drought, leading to many since the 1980s moving to big cities elsewhere in the country.

Obrigado. Just for information, forro has some popularity in germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33sqgUUJKg