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Jan 2024
10m 4s

Brazil

MONOCLE
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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.

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