Grupo Chocolate was a Brazilian pagode quartet formed in 2019 in Porto Alegre,
Rio Grande do Sul, by Gabriel Rocha, Luiz Alberto, Léo Maia and Matheus Dias.
They first built traction through live-format releases that stitched together
pagode and samba staples into long medleys, launching the series Canta,
Chocolate! (Ao Vivo) and then expanding it in 2022 with Canta, Chocolate! 2 (Ao
Vivo), a project that helped position them as a high-energy “roda de samba” act
as much as a streaming-first group. In 2023, Grupo Chocolate translated that
local buzz into a national-facing single m...