choro, also known as chorinho, is an instrumental musical style, that upon first impression, sounds very similar to some of the more traditional samba rhythms - this resemblance occurs for good reason, as both genres draw on many of the same influences, and can easily be viewed as a precursor to the samba that would emerge in later years.

the genre emerged in the 1880s in rio as result of a mixture of styles from europe and africa brought to brazil by the slave trade and immigratio n.