Ara City Radio

For this week's City Scenes twe’ve landed in a city that is a goldmine when it comes to amazing music. This is a city that lives and breathes music, located in south America, with a population of more than 6 million people, famous for its beaches, its carnival and of course its music. This week we are in Rio De Janeiro The breathtaking city of Rio De Janeiro or Cidade Maravilhoso as it is known, is the 2nd biggest city in Brazil after Sao Paulo and a cultural and artistic hub. It is also a popular tourist spot and for many people when they think of Rio De Janeiro they think of one thing - And that is Carnival. Every year millions of people take to the streets in Rio De Janeiro for the spectacle of the carnival parades, a huge celebration of brazillian culture soundtracked by the sound of a music style known as samba. Samba is a form of brazilian music that brings together a wide variety of percussion instruments and portuguese brazilian singing. The origins of samba has routes in the traditional music of