Marlui Miranda

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Marlui Nóbrega Miranda

Marlui Nóbrega Miranda (born October 12, 1949 in Fortaleza ) is a Brazilian ethnomusicologist , composer and singer . She is the sister of the writer and actress Ana Maria Nóbrega Miranda.

Live and act

Marlui Miranda grew up in Fortaleza, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília . She studied architecture at the Universidade de Brasília . In 1968 she won first prize at the Festival de Música Estudantil in Brasília as a performer and composer. She then took classical guitar lessons with Turíbio Santos , Jodacil Damasceno and Paulo Bellinati at the Conservatório Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro. In 1974 she broke off this training to study indigenous Brazilian music in the northern part of Amazonia .

Since 1979 she has published albums under her own name, some of which have taken up these traditions and popularized them (for example on Ihu - Todos Os Sons , together with Gilberto Gil , Uakti or the Grupo Beijo). She also produced the documentary album Amazon Rainforest Music (Sonoton) and worked on adaptations of European opera music with Indios . She also worked as an Indian music consultant for Hector Babenco's film Brincando Nos Campos do Senhor .

In 1998 she was involved (with Bugge Wesseltoft , Trilok Gurtu , Rodolfo Stroeter and Toninho Ferragutti ) on the recordings for Gilberto Gil's album O Sol de Oslo ; she can also be heard on Celine Rudolph's album Metamorflores and Milton Nascimentos Txai and toured Europe with Jack DeJohnette's Ripple Effect .

Discographic notes

  • Neuneneu (Humanity): Fragments of Indigenous Brazil (2006)
  • 2 Ihu Kewere: Rezar (1997)
  • Ihu - Todos Os Sons (1996)
  • Rio Acima (1986)
  • Revivência (1983)
  • Olho D'água (1979, with Egberto Gismonti )

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personal data
SURNAME Miranda, Marlui
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miranda, Marlui Nóbrega (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian ethnomusicologist, composer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Fortaleza