Rádio Amália

Rádio Amália focuses on Latin music within the Portuguese-speaking world's specific context. The station pulls heavily from Brazil - samba, bossa nova, tropicália, and contemporary Brazilian pop - alongside Caribbean material and Latin music connected to Portugal's historical relationships with former colonies. That geographic and linguistic specificity shapes what gets played and how it's contextualized. The curation reflects decades of cultural mixing between Portugal and the Brazilian diaspora living there. You're not hearing Latin music filtered through English-language distribution channe…