The New York City night club Nublu has been the match-making source for many a cool downtown jazz/electronica/pop ensemble, and the Brazilian Girls are a shining example. The quartet (no actual Brazilians, but one real girl, Italian-born vocalist Sabina Sciubba) met and started playing at the club regularly in 2003 for ecstatic audiences who loved their global groove-oriented sound, multilingual lyrics, and Sciubba's brainy sex appeal. Their 2005 debut on Verve topped the yearly best-of lists of a diverse range of critics.