Academia da Berlinda has been played on NTS in shows including Rio Doce, featured first on 4 October 2021. Songs played include Yayá.

Formed in 2004 in Olinda, the group consists of musicians from a number of famous bands all from Pernambuco’s musical scene (Mundo Livre S/A, Eddie, A Roda, Variant). From the beginning, the band invested in a repertory from the bregas music from the 60’s, which soon named it as an original band that played “brega roots” in creative and innovating versions, full of cumbias, guarachas and loads of afrobeats.

This experimental fusion of styles was aimed with the sole purpose of providing…