My professional and academic trajectory intersects social communication, cultural production, and anthropology, with a particular focus on sound, performance, and heritage-making processes in Angola and the broader Atlantic world. I began in radio and later worked in television, contributing to the development and production of programmes in Portugal and Angola, including at Televisão Pública de Angola (TPA and TPA Internacional) from 2008 onwards. My media work includes youth-oriented and widely broadcast formats, such as Bounce Angola (2008–2010), Elite Model Look Angola (2010–2014), and Kizomba Nation (2013–2014), a project mapping global circuits of kizomba. Within this media pathway, I also directed the fashion and lifestyle magazine DIVO Magazine and conceived, researched, and conducted interviews for the documentary Bangaologia – the Science of Style (2016). Alongside these activities, I have developed international experience in cultural and educational programmes, including the European Volunteer Service (2005) in North Macedonia, and contributed to UNESCO-related cultural contexts through the presentation of the film For the Word (Struga Poetry Evenings, 2011). Academically, I hold an MA in Anthropology (Globalizations, Migrations and Multiculturalism), with a dissertation on the practices and transnational diffusion of kizomba (2015). I completed a PhD at ISCTE-IUL and NOVA FCSH (PhD Programme in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology), funded by FCT (PD/BD/137669/2018), focusing on Semba as intangible cultural heritage, with emphasis on cultural policies, images, and sonorities in Angola. I am currently a researcher at CRIA – Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia and affiliated with IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory.