Radio Recife plays Brazilian dance music, afro samba and MBP. The group consists of musicians from the Copenhagen jazz- and world music scene and appears often as a sextet with singer, guitar, a horn, bass, drums and percussion. The concerts creates a hot samba-atmosphere with Vanjá Santos’ explosive energi as a guiding force. The iniciative to start this group was taken by Lars Emil (guitar) in 2020 with a dream of creating powerful and open afro-samba-dance-concerts in Denmark and beyond. Since then the group has formed around Vanjá Santos (voc), David Besiakov (drums), Rune Fog-Nielsen (bass) and Lars Emil (guitar) with wonderfuld visits from Yohan Ramon (CU, percussion), Søren Høst (DK, saxophone), Alessandro Garau (IT, trompet), Fredrik Moth (DK, saxophone) Aurelio Raposo (BRA, electric bass), Fermin Melgar (SP, saxophone), Marcos Irmão (BRA, pandeiro), Michael Finding (DK, congas) and Anton Langebæk (DK, double bass).
