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Who I Am & Where I Live

Name: Lenna Bahule
City: São Paulo
Country: Brazil
Hometown: Maputo, Mozambique

My Life & Work

Bio: Cantora, arte educadora e ativista cultural, natural de Maputo, Moçambique. Hoje transita entre o seu país de origem e o Brasil mergulhada em constante pesquisa e intercâmbio com as afro-culturas e movimentos sociais de ambos países.

No Brasil, fundamentou sua pesquisa sobre a música vocal e diferentes caminhos para o uso da voz e do corpo como instrumento musical e de expressão artística.

O histórico de sua carreira musical conta com encontros e colaborações locais de diferentes diásporas como Cheny Wa Gune (Moçambique), Stewart Sukuma (Moçambique), Mário Laginha (Portugal), Mû Mbana (Guiné Bissau), Virginia Rodrigues (Brasil), Benjamim Taubkin (Brasil), Kastrup (Brasil), Mateus Aleluia (Brasil), o escritor e seu conterrâneo Mia Couto entre tantos outros.

Atualmente, além de suas apresentações SOLO, lidera o projeto de música vocal NÔMADE, homônimo ao seu primeiro disco autoral, o duo TAUBKIN & BAHULE, em parceria com o baixista paulistano, João Taubkin. Como arte educadora Lenna orienta e conduz desde 2013, atividades relacionadas ao canto em grupo, corpo, voz e movimento e repertório da cultura popular de Moçambique (jogos, brincadeiras e cancioneiro popular). É também Embaixadora da causa "SOMOS MOÇAMBIQUE" que surgiu em apoio às vítimas dos dois ciclones que atingiram o centro e norte do país, no começo de 2019, onde reuniu mais de 60 artistas para um concerto beneficente em parceria com a Connecting Dots, Casa Natura Musical e a Cruz Vermelha.

Lenna Bahule started her training in music at the age of five, having joined the National School of Music (ENM) in Maputo- Mozambique where she was born. Since 2012, based in São Paulo, she has based her research on vocal music and different ways to use voice and body as a musical instrument and artistic expression. She studied and participated in exchange activities and study groups with pioneering artists of the various techniques that support this research, such as: Fernando Barba, Stênio Mendes, Zuza Gonçalves, Pedro Consorte, Ronaldo dos Santos, Tiago Pinheiro, Tiago Pinheiro, Georgia Dias, Wagner Barbosa, Sílvia Goes, Eleni Vosniadou (GRE), Rhiannon (USA), Santiago Vasquez (ARG), Guillermo Rozenthuler (UK).

In private lessons and group meetings, Lenna guides singers and choral / vocal groups, developing creative and expressive expansion work, using some free improvisation techniques, body awareness, musical games and jokes from the universe of body music, circlesong and signal conducting, and an introductory work on the repertoire of Mozambique's vocal music.

In the area of art education, she researches and teaches a workshop on games, games, songs and children's and popular dances from her homeland. She has taught this workshop in several places such as: Instituto Brincante, Casa do Brincar, Teca Oficina de Música, Sesc’s, among others.

She collaborated with artists such as Angelo Mundy (Abrigação), Luiz Tatit (Words and Dreams), Jurema Paes (Mestiça), Benjamim Taubkin, João Taubkin and Itamar Doari (O Pequeno Milagre de Cada Dia) and shared the stage with artists like Na Ozzetti , Juçara Marçal, Marcelo Pretto, Clarianas, Mu Mbana (GNB), among others.

She performed with the Youth Choir of the State (EMESP) and partnered on the soundtrack and musical direction of the play accessible to the blind and deaf "FEIO" by the collective GRÃO, which in 2016 won first place in the "Premio de SP de incentivo ao teatro" children and young people and the best show of inclusion and accessibility by APCA.

He participated in some literature meetings with Mia Couto, at the launch of his last book “Sombras da Água” according to the book of her trilogy “As Areias do Imperador”.

Currently, in addition to her presentations "SOLO", she has just released his first CD entitled NÔMADE "which is part of the list of the 100 best albums of 2016 by the website Embrulhador.

She's a part of the South African dance group, GUMBOOT Dance Brasil as a dancer and as a musical director.