Bossacucanova has been played on NTS shows including Patrick Forge, with Deixa A Menina first played on 17 July 2023.

Brazilian music is like a diamond — complex, brilliant, and multifaceted. And there's no surprise there; Brazilian culture is so wildly diverse, so open to foreign influences and so famously devoted to letting the good times roll that there's no way Brazil's music could be anything but a kaleidoscopic riot of flavors and colors. That's how you end up with such popular and influential exports as samba, lambada and bossa nova, musical styles that are constantly mutating and developing, absorbing new elements from around the…