The Brazilian gaucho music, called in Portuguese language música gaúcha brasileira or música nativista is a term used to designate the traditional music of Southern Brazil, especially the one of Río Grande do Sul state, whose population has a strong ancestry of european countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany. The word gaucho refers to the countryside and farm people.
Among the main musical styles of gaucho music there are: milonga, chamamé, chamarra, polca, vanera (with the variants vanerão y vanerinha), bugio, rasguido doble and rancheira.
The songs of gaucho music present themes of the folk traditions of the gaucho: field, farm, horse, moral values, regional cuisine, women. The music is built in a slow, intimate manner, with lyrics abundant in metaphors. Some representantive artsits have been Teixeirinha, José Mendes y Gildo de Freitas, Dimas Costa, Gaúcho da Fronteira, Porca Véia.