Cristiano Tsope was born in Maputo, Mozambique. He is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology and a Liber|Sound Project’s researcher team member in INET-MD at Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal. Liber|Sound project proposes the liberation of musical inheritance contained in obsolete media (78 rpm discs and magnetic tapes) to facilitate the reactivation of memory based on innovative processes of archiving. It focuses on examples of popular music micro-expressions, recorded and disseminated during the first half of the 20th century by the recording industry in Portugal, Mozambique, Brazil, and India (Goa). Cristiano holds a graduation degree in History from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane and a master's degree in Human Rights, Economic Development, and Good Governance from the Technical University of Mozambique. He works at Radio Mozambique’s Sound Archive as a Documentalist. His research interests include human rights, media, music, and sound archives, specifically in Mozambique. He co-authored a publication with Luca BUSSOTT titled “A abordagem dos Direitos Humanos na Comunicação Social em Moçambique: o caso da Rádio Moçambique-E.P. 2015” (The Human Rights Approach in Social Communication in Mozambique: a study case from Radio Mozambique). in “Estudos Contemporâneos em Jornalismo” in 2019. Co-autor with Maya Seumi Lemos and Pedro Aragão of the book chapter "Fluxos transoceânicos em música: sons e sentidos em torno dos fonogramas brasileiros de 78 rpm do arquivo do Rádio Clube de Moçambique (1932-1974). In: Fluxos e Trânsitos na História da Arte Global, 2023; Co-Founder of “Associação A Ponte” in Maputo; member of the Portuguese Society for Research in Music (SPIM) and of the ICTMD – Study Group on African music and Study Group on Sources and Archives for Music and Sound Studies since 2022; Vice-chair of the ICTMD National Committee for Mozambique, since 2023.