Countdown: check out the sambas-enredo of the Special Group for 2026

The countdown has begun! The samba schools of the Special Group revealed their sambas-enredo for the Carnaval 2026, and the party atmosphere already takes over the hearts in love with samba. A Marquis de Sapucaí you will receive, between the 15th and 17th of February, parades full of emotion, history and cultural resistance.

Check below the Sambas-Enredo of the Special Group for the Carnaval 2026, separated per day:

Sunday - February 15:

• Niterói academics

Entangled: From the top of the Mulungu comes hope: Lula, the worker of Brazil

Authors: Teresa Cristina, André Diniz, Paulo Cesar Feital, Fred Camacho, Junior Fionda, Arlindinho, Lequinho, Thiago Oliveira and Tem-tem Jr.

LETRA

I saw the star of a country shine

In the weeping of Luiz, the light of Garanhuns

Sertão where poverty and mourning

They divide for so many

And wealth multiplies to some

I see myself in the eyes of my children

Haunted and empty with the chest in pieces

I went after love and my dreams

I took my boys by the arms

Shining a Sun from the unceasing homeland

To the retreating fate I took you Luiz Inácio

Ironically, thirteen nights, thirteen days

He guided me Santa Luzia, St. Joseph alumniou

From the left of God the Father, from the union struggle

To world leadership

I saw hope grow and the people follow his voice

Revolutionary is knowing how to choose your heroes

Zuzu Angel, Henfil, Wladimir

Who paid the price of anger

We're still here.

In Brazil of Rubens Paiva

Fight to win, accept if you lose

If the ideal is true, never give up

It is not worthy to run away, nor to allow.

Auctioning it here, in time, in sight

Yeah, there's a poor kid becoming a doctor.

Food on the worker's table

Hunger in a hurry, Betinho said

Yeah, your legacy is the mirror of my lessons.

Without fear of tariffs and sanctions

As soon as sovereignty is created

No false myths, no amnesty

How much hunger costs, how much life is worth

Our last name is Brazil da Silva

Worth a nation, worth a great plot

In Niterói love has overcome fear

♪ Olé, olé, olé, olé ♪

You'll pass this avenue another popular samba

♪ Olé, olé, olé, olé ♪

Lula, Lula

• Empress Leopoldinense

Entangled: Chameleon

Authors: Hélio Porto, Aldir Senna, Orlando Ambrosio, Miguel Dibo, Marcelo Vianna and Wilson Mineiro, Gabriel Coelho, Alexandre Moreira, Guilherme Macedo, Chicão, Antônio Crescente and Bernardo Nobre.

LETRA

♪ I'm half man, half beast ♪

The silence and the scream

Bird, woman

Who paints the truth on his face

Brings courage in the body

And you never hide what you are

Visible, indefinable

Resigns the fragile

What's confusing is the disorder

Of what challenges the easy

I sing with a woman's soul

Art that knows what it wants

And don't forget

I am the poem that affronts the system

The tongue in the ear of those who censor

Free to be whole

Yeah, I'm a man with an H

And how I am

The beast, bandit, sin and spell

Peacock of mysteries, rebel, cactus

The voice that the warm Rose named

Athenas' wife that evil does not consume

The Latin blood that turns

Turn around, turn into a werewolf

I swear you better turn yourself in.

To the provocative feline way

I devour to be devoured

I don't see. Sin to the South of Ecuador

If you play at the party, forget tomorrow

My school on the street to be a champion!

Come my love

Let's live life

Boil it.

That the day will be born happy in Leopoldina

• Portela

Entangled: The Mystery of the Prince of Barah – The prayer of Negrinho and the resurrection of his crown under the open sky of Rio Grande

Authors: Valtinho Botafogo, Raphael Gravino, Gabriel Simões, Braga, Cacau Oliveira, Miguel Cunha and Dona Madalena.

LETRA

It's bara... oh!

Who rules your crown, barah?

He's the king of Sapaktá

Alafia of fate in ifa!

♪ It's a mystery that can't wait ♪

For batuque to incorporate

♪ It's a mystery that can't wait ♪

To incorporate portela

Go on, blackie. You're going to release him.

Rescue Tradition

Where Africa Sits

♪ Oh, run, run, come reveal ♪

The Kingdom of Help

Pampa is black earth in its essence

Alupo, my lord, alupo!

There's gonna be shirm at the drum beat

Lights the cruise... crossroads key

It's custodian macumba at the break of

Dawn

Healer, sorcerer

Forerunner

Put the cream on the gongá (O yay!)

Basis on your yard

Resist faith in the orixah

From belief in the rosary

The Rite of the Market

You still live on your legacy

Portela... you're the zombie throne itself.

From samba, the majesty in every ori

Yalorixá of all axé

As long as there's a shepherding

The flame won't erase

There is no demand that the black people cannot

Fight!

Ae oni bará! Ae nanny lode!

The portel assembled loaded in the palm

Under the sky of the great river

There's prayer to bless

The crown prince of barah!

• First Station of Hose

Entangled: Master Sacaca do Encanto Tucuju - The Guardian of the Black Amazon

Authors: Pedro Terra, Tomaz Miranda, Joãozinho Gomes, Paulo César Feital, Herval Neto and Igor Leal

LETRA

♪ I stuck my root ♪

In the far north where my country begins

The dried leaves led me to the turé

Painted in green and pink, jenipapo and urucum

Tree-woman, almost century hose

An Embedded Nation

Heiress quilombola, descent palikur

Retrieving the amazons in the caxixi trance

Run water, pour the life of the oiapoque into the jar

Çai erê, babalaô, master sacaca

I call you from the middle of the world into the woods

Hail the healer, doctor of the forest

Old black, sarava

Macera leaf, bark and grass

Bottle the cure, come light

It defumes leaf, bark and grass... Sarava

Black on the mara Bass Mark

Firm the body in the compass

With thieves and litany echoing from the cellars

♪ Ergo and I make my mantle ♪

To the blessings of the holy spirit and are josé of Macapa

♪ I'm cute, I'm batuque and I'm dancing ♪

The leather hand of the crusher (sand)

A benefactor's charm that the black amazon has eternalized

In clay, fruit and wood, living history standing

Quilombo, favela and village in the faith

Of ya, olive tree benedita, mother of the hill of Mangueira

Listen to the corner of the uirapuru

Yes, blessed olive tree, bless the hill of Mangueira

And bless the Tucuju way

The magic of my drum enchanted you in Jequitibá

I called the people here, brought the people there.

At the first station of Amapá

Monday - February 16th:

• Independent Youth of Father Miguel

Entangled: Rita Lee, the patron saint of freedom

Authors: Jefinho Rodrigues, Diego Nicolau, Xande de Pilares, Marquinho Indio, Richard Valença, Orlando Ambrosio, Renan Diniz, Lauro Silva, Cleiton Roberto and Head of Ajax

LETRA

One day I decided to change

♪ I'm done with these ugly people ♪

To your good customs I'm sorry to inform you

I've formed other black sheep

The difference of the verb without brake

For uniform, a tongue and the middle finger

Fire hair and red lens

Mutant of marked skin

I fuck rock and samba for pleasure

Now you're all that's missing.

I'm independent, easy to love

Free of any censorship

Come on, dance with me, just looking at you

I can imagine madness.

Love is forever the body composing between the mouth and the womb

Squeeze the guitar, rip off the ties and drink me hot

My sweet vampire beyond wanting

Sorry about that!

If it's serious, I throw perfume, turn up the volume.

That I bank the truth

It's no use arresting

Santa Rita Leeberdade

Come, be Pagu, surrender

Anyone who gets past the pattern wins the rule

The female voice, plural

Sign the star on my carnaval

Youth, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

My youth, I came back for you!

It's a shame, if you play, baby.

In the sky, in the sea, in the moon

In Vila Vintém

• Kiss-Flor of Nilópolis

Entangled: Bembé

Authors: Sidney de Pilales, Marquinhos Beija-Flor, Jackal do Sax, Cláudio Gladiador, Marcelo Lepiane, João Conga, Diego Oliveira, Diogo Rosa, Manolo, Julio Alves and Léo do Piso.

LETRA

Don't ask me to shut up my truth

For our freedom does not depend on paper

In Santo Amaro, every 13th of May

Our ancestry is celebrated in the light of heaven

It's John of Obá, holy Grief

It's... a living heritage in the market.

Singing, we salute our faith

To the Candomblé nations

Respect is sacred!

The funky axé resounds in the chorus

We fear no attack.

The street we occupy by right

♪ Put some weed on to smoke ♪

A bull to protect

Saraiéi is Bokunan, saraiéié!

Our people are from the crossroads

Black art of terreiro

It's a culture mix.

Macumber's crowd

The people spin on the shir, celebrating...

The axé spreads in every corner, in every look

Transship magic in the drum ring

To Yabás, the balaio and love...

Yemanja Alode at sea (at sea)

It is d’Oxum all beauty of ibá

It's prayer in the body, it's dancing in the soul

The rose, the palm, the Omolucum...

It's Dona Canô from all corners

I call upon the Baixada of all Saints!

Atabaque echoed, freedom resounding

This is gonna turn into a macumba!

Let it spin that the street turned Bembé

Let it spin that the street turned Bembé

My egbe makes his place count

Laroyê, Kiss-Flor, Alaphia!

• United of the Vidour

Entangled: Up, Up, Up!

Authors: Cláudio Mattos, Renan Gemeo, Rodrigo Gemeo, Lucas Neves, Rodrigo Rolla, Ronaldo Maiatto, Bertolo, Silvio Mesquita, Marcelo Adnet and Thiago Meiners.

LETRA

I saw life pulsing like a song

Millions of bars to eternalize

In every heartbeat of my heart

The sound that reflects your batucar

There, where the samba made cradle, from the top of the hill

A boy is proud of Ishmael, a new animal

Forged in the clutches of the old lion

Count on the wide of the Stadium

The fate in your step

That made little by little a flame light

Bring deaf, tarol and repeat to master rule

When the whistle resounds like magic

♪ On a hillbilly train, in the look of Bahian ♪

Gold medal, perfect suingue

What a mark on the samba school's chest

If life is a plot it paraded other loves

Maestro made the leather symphony

In the boldness of their drums

Perfect piece to complete me

Wizard of evocations

Atabaque sent for you

♪ For macumba to throw dust ♪

Firm the box to resist, Moacyr's name

It's Master Skull's legacy.

It's me, another baton pulsing for you

Listen, thank you for the lessons I could learn

And today at your feet

We're all one on this avenue

In a hurricane that will never end

Our story does not find farewell

If I'm gonna die of love in samba

I'm Viradouro, where art has consecrated him

We don't expect to miss singing

From the master of the masters I inherited the drum

• United Tijuca

Entangled: Carolina Mary of Jesus

Authors: Lico Monteiro, Samir Trindade, Leandro Thomaz, Marcelo Adnet, Marcelo Lepiane, Telmo Augusto, Gigi da Estiva and Juca.

LETRA

I'm the daughter of a pain

Who was born inside a longing

Granddaughter of old black grandfather

Who taught me the mysteries

Bitita, color that dreamed of freedom

My name is Carolina of Jesus

From him I also inherited the cross

Look at me, I have the marks

They made me survive.

For being free in words

They condemned my knowledge.

It was the pen that didn't reproduce

The fate of black women in Brazil

The eyes of hunger were mine

Justice of men is no greater than that of God!

My room was an eviction of agony

The word is a weapon against tyranny!

I dreamt about the pages of life

Illusions tolled by an algorithmic system

Who tries to erase our greatness

Shut up the royalty that still lives in us

My shack is wooden

Barracks are Borel's

Where Carolinas Are Born

We will no longer be the defendants.

For so many Marys

Who saw their sons crucified

In the lines of life, verb in the wound, I left my legacy...

My country was born with a woman's name

I'm freedom... Canindé's mother!

Change that story, Tijuca

Get the strength out of my verse to win!

He recognizes his place... and fights

That's our way of writing!

Tuesday - February 17:

• Paradise of Tuiuti

Entangled: Lonã Ifa Lukumi

Authors: Cláudio Russo, Gustavo Clão and Luiz Antônio Simas

LETRA

My godfather told me

Each has his ori

Fate is a teacher

The root is Lucumí

Ifa, remove from that flower its thorns

It reveals my odu and his ways

With the ikins of Orummilá

Give me your life

Olodumarê, creator

Spread axé and love

On the island of the orixás

And the black started in secret

From the kingdom of Olokun made his trail

Breaking the shackles of death and fear

It was the first babalaô on the island

Nanny moforibalé, nanny moforibalé

Orummilá Talade, babysitter moforibalé

Elegant

He owns the power

Moenda can no longer grind

♪ Set the cane on fire ♪

Elegant

Has coconut, mandinga and palm

Today the choir will eat

In the beards of Havana

Ah! The spirit of the baptismum

With the sacred blade of Ogum

And the fate of those who love Idepha

Ah! The Caribbean branch has expanded

In the green and yellow of Brazil

On the ropes of the oponifá and oponifá

Tear down the wall who knows how to asphalt

Open Paths in the Hand of Ifa

May the world understand

The bull beats the pain

Sitting on the treadmill of a babalaô

Ibarabô, ago lonã

Olukumi

Iboru, iboya, ibosheshe

Sing, Tuiuti!

• United States of Vila Isabel

Entangled: Macumbembê, Samborembá: I dreamt that a Sambist dreamed of Africa

Authors: André Diniz, Evandro Bocão and Arlindinho

LETRA

I dreamt macumbembê, samborembá dream

Macumba is samba and samba is macumba

You can even make quizumba

You just can't separate

Dream samborembah, macumbembê

It comes from the mother land, established point in Bahia

And in small Africa germinated to bloom

It's quilombo, it's Pedra do Sal

It rooted in yard and yard

On the beaten ground laid the foundation

It was the Lino of Godmother

♪ Best man, mirror ♪

Float in the capoeira to the perfume of Ciata

Black prince of gold, the angel of silver wings

An ogan alabê, macumbeiro

To the smoke of the pipe, old black blew

Enchantment of the girdle, of the tumbling wheel

Poetry of the Curimba, Baptist and Singer

It was the lundu and the catheter.

He lined up with holy linen, little chip in hand

In love Pierrot Afro-king

The right arrow of Oxossi in the song

It shines in schools in Noel and Cartola

Won the world with the world of Paul the Coat

Of all the tones, the village, black is!

Of all the sounds, the black village is!

From China and Ferreira

Mocambo monkeys and the flag stick

From our slum, white to blue from the sky

On the white screen the blue brush

Come be watercolor, paint the United of Vila Isabel

Oraieie Oxum, Kabecilê Xangô

My dreams and drums, paints and pleasures

For you, Hector.

• Academics of the Greater Rio

Entangled: The Mangrove Nation

Authors: Alson Picanço, Marquinho Paloma, Davison Wendel, Xande Pieroni and Marcelo Moraes

LETRA

Respect the drums of my lle

Respect the cadence of my ganza

In front of the banner of my people

Announce a new time that makes us believe!

I'm from the mangrove, son of the periphery.

On a palafite, Grande Rio announced

Spearhead and Daruê

Bend the gong... The revolution has already begun!

Here comes Zombie's heir caboclo

The nation is here

Doesn't bend to power

Listen, our people come from the mud

Inflamed resistance

When the sheikerê plays

It's a ghetto house! Ghetto house!

Our voice that won't shut up

Batuque without fear by right is the touch of the tailors

I'm also a carnage from the edge of the stream

Igapó works early, picks up the tide trash

Manamauê, maracatu, saluba is dwarf... Yabá!

Life like the waters

Not as sweet as the river

Nor salty like the sea

The margin... He's already gone to town

Between the trunk and the repellent vine... Popular Thought

Gramacho found Capibaribe

In a free world I want to see you sing

Freire, teach an illiterate country

Who didn't understand the manifesto

Social awareness

Chico! Manguebeat is on the street

Caxias bought the fight

And turn it into carnaval!

• Willow Academics

Entangled: The delirious carnival journey of the teacher who was not afraid of witch, cod and the pirate of the leg

Authors: Rafa Hecht, Samir Trindade, Thiago Daniel, Clairton Fonseca, Fabrício Sena, Deiny Leite, Felipe Sena, Ricardo Castanheira, JP Figueira, Deco, Marcelo Motta, Dudu Nobre, Julio Alves, Manolo, Daniel Paixão, Jonathan Tenório, Kadu Gomes, Zé Moraes, Jorge Arthur and Fadico.

LETRA

I traveled in the rococos of illusion

Art that inspired me

I found it again in the world of imagination

Memories you created

From the books I've seen characters

Barrocas images of so many memories

On the table, the high luxury of nobility

King, princess and Empress

♪ When I visit my pretend dreams ♪

I drew myself a child, I was happy again

That you-ti-ti-ti is that around the world taking me?

I sailed without leaving my place

I landed on April 22nd

In the shadow of a Brazil-Pau

So I discovered my country

Fauna and flora, by their look

The owners of the Brazilian land...

A jegue made me swing...

On the shelves on this side of Ecuador

I devoured the nation

Walking the Listener became a love affair

To my heart

Master, you made me love the party

And I became a carnival.

I dreamt of being Rosa, I make you plot

Master, you made me love the party

So many students around here

Follow the legacy in Sapucaí!

THE LEE! EIS THE FLOR OF TOMORROW

THE DECIME BRILLIED STAR IN ROSA MAGALLA

WHERE SAMBA IS PRIMAVERA, WHICH FLOWS IN FEBRUARY

Neither better nor worse...