What's on our radio this week in Brazil

[David Paul Appell]

In Brazil, there is always music playing. It is the fuel for our daily fire! Music is a normal part of the city hum you hear all day long in every corner of this country. In Brazilian culture, there is a natural encouragement to sing out loud and dance for the sake of dancing. There isn't a shame around it, but rather a deep joy that comes from feeling the music. We sing it in the streets, hear it on those small transistor radios as we buy our newspaper, dance to it with our kids in our living rooms, play it loudly in the background as we cook our black beans & rice for dinner & feel it silently as we go to sleep with our lovers. There is such a huge variety that most rarely gets exported out of the country. 

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