It is likely that the first Gypsies banished from Portugal have arrived in Brazil in the 1560s and 1570s. There are records of Gypsies accused and sentenced to serve time in the Kingdom that, for personal reasons, requested commutation of the sentence to exile, and then were sent to the Colony.

In Northeast Brazil in particular, it is one of the most celebrated festivals. Among its fundamental aspects are the quadrilhas [square-dancing] and forró [music], bonfires, balloons, processions and novenas, and the wonderful junina [June festival] cuisine.

Couscous is originally an African dish, more precisely from the Maghreb region, prepared with grains of semolina, wheat, or cassava starch, and has been spread worldwide.

Faced with a context of physical and cultural diversities, Brazil has become an ethnic broth composed of various cults, religions, rites, superstitions, beliefs, gods, saints and supernatural forces.

The initial goal of the creation of the radio: that of a means of mass communication.