the tendency of carioca music players to blend rhythms and styles across genres, along with the overall highly religious population of rio de janeiro, has created a unique and very successful gospel carioca.

gospel carioca, broadly defined as all the religious music played across the various churches and credence in rio de janeiro, is becoming ever more popular, even outside the churches where it was born.

just like with many other music genres in rio de janeiro, a very clear and unique variation of gospel soon appeared - in a city where ' funk carioca ' has such a strong presence, gospel funk, also called bless funk, was the natural result of the marriage between the two genres.