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Jan 2024
10m 4s

Brazil

MONOCLE
About this episode
Monocle Radio’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco looks at the charts of his home country, Brazil. Expect new takes on ‘sertanejo’ music, the Brazilian version of a Eurovision-winning song and epic 12-minute funk tracks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 
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