CURATION
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by Matrix
Network Node
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Name:
Inaicyra Falcão
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City/Place:
Campinas, São Paulo
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Country:
Brazil
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Hometown:
Salvador, Bahia
Life & Work
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Bio:
Intérprete soprano dramática que há mais de 30 anos tem se dedicado ao canto lírico, alcançou reconhecimento nacional ao lançar em 31 de março de 2000, no Teatro Castro Alves (Salvador-BA), o cd Okan Awa, cânticos de tradição em yorubá, em homenagem ao centenário de nascimento de sua avó, Maria Bibiana do Espírito Santo, célebre iyalorixá do Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, uma das primeiras comunidades de matrizes africana de origem Ketu na Bahia.
Nascida em Salvador, é uma das filhas de Deoscóredes Maximilliano do Santos resultado da sua segunda união com Edvaldina Falcão dos Santos. Conhecido como Mestre Didi, foi escritor, educador, artista plástico e Alapini, título do mais alto sacerdócio do culto de egungun (ancestrais masculinos na tradição yorubá), descobriu na década de 60 que sua família pertencia a linhagem direta de uma das famílias fundadora do reinado de Ketu na Nigéria, na década de 80 fundou o Ilê Asipa, comunidade de matriz africana que cultua os ancestrais.
Graduada em Dança pela Universidade Federal da Bahia, com mestrado em Artes Teatrais pela Universidade de Ibadan na Nigéria, doutora em Educação pela USP e livre docente na área de Práticas Interpretativas pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
A técnica e o aperfeiçoamento vocal de Inaicyra foram adquiridos por meio de cursos sobre a arte lírica com professores como Suzel Cabral, Neide Thomaz, Glédis Spiere, Indira Menezes e a maestrina Vera Olivero. Participou do coral da Universidade de Ibadan com o maestro Oyesiku e a sua primeira apresentação solo foi no Departamento de Artes Teatrais na Opereta Royal Jester de Smyth Cooper no papel da princesa, em 1986.
Enquanto, que o primeiro recital foi realizado pela ABAL-Associação Brasileira “Carlos Gomes” de Artistas Líricos, no Centro de Ciências, Letras e Artes de Campinas, em 1992.
Nessa época, acredita que devido a sua vivência com a tradição dos cantos negro spiritual e os cantos da tradição dos orixás, inspirou-se em uma forma de comunicação, a transcendência na interpretação dos poemas míticos yoruba os orikis.
English:
Dramatic soprano interpreter who has dedicated herself to lyrical singing for over 30 years, gained national recognition when she released on March 31, 2000, at the Teatro Castro Alves (Salvador-BA), the CD Okan Awa, chants of Yoruba tradition, in homage to the centenary of the birth of her grandmother, Maria Bibiana do Espírito Santo, a renowned iyalorixá of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, one of the first communities of African origin Ketu in Bahia.
Born in Salvador, she is one of the daughters of Deoscóredes Maximilliano do Santos from his second union with Edvaldina Falcão dos Santos. Known as Mestre Didi, he was a writer, educator, visual artist, and Alapini, the title of the highest priesthood of the egungun cult (male ancestors in the Yoruba tradition), he discovered in the 1960s that his family belonged to the direct lineage of one of the founding families of the Ketu kingdom in Nigeria, in the 1980s he founded Ilê Asipa, a community of African origin that worships the ancestors.
Graduated in Dance from the Federal University of Bahia, with a master's degree in Theater Arts from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, a doctorate in Education from USP, and a post-doctorate in the area of Interpretative Practices from the State University of Campinas.
Inaicyra's vocal technique and improvement were acquired through courses on lyrical art with teachers such as Suzel Cabral, Neide Thomaz, Glédis Spiere, Indira Menezes, and conductor Vera Olivero. She participated in the choir of the University of Ibadan with conductor Oyesiku, and her first solo performance was at the Department of Theater Arts in the Operetta Royal Jester by Smyth Cooper in the role of the princess, in 1986.
While her first recital was held by ABAL-Brazilian Association "Carlos Gomes" of Lyrical Artists, at the Center for Sciences, Letters, and Arts of Campinas, in 1992.
At that time, she believes that due to her experience with the tradition of negro spiritual songs and the chants of the orixás tradition, she was inspired by a form of communication, the transcendence in the interpretation of Yoruba mythical poems, the orikis.
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Both pulled by the inexorable mathematical gravity of the small world phenomenon to within range of everybody inside.
And by logical extension, to within range of all humanity outside as well.
8 billion human beings tend to within six degrees of connection to each other.
In a small world great things are possible.
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...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
I built the Matrix below (I'm below left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian. If you create too, join them in the Matrix.
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