While Guerreiras is the first all-female partnership in a Grupo Especial samba school, prioritizing community and inclusion.
With a strong refrain, “Ser Portelense is the most beautiful heritage”, the Guerreiras compete for the anthem of 2023, the centenary year of Portela, which was very well received and already classified in the first and second round. The objective of this 100% organic partnership is to exclusively use female strength, inspiration and work in samba plot disputes.
“We don’t exclude men, we just give priority to women, because many still don’t have the experience of real samba spaces and have difficulties in employment, especially in the music segment. It’s about inclusion, occupying spaces where certain activities by women cause strangeness and are still seen as exotic”, Guerreiras explain.
Of the seven composers, four are singers and champion samba on stage. Meri de Liz, Rozzi Brasil, Ana Quintas, Simone Lyns, Sandra Portella, Andréa Moreira and Dayse do Banjo believe in this samba, beautiful, happy, light and that pleases everyone.
Samba das Guerreiras will return to the court of Portela, on 11/09, in search of its dream – the choice of samba to represent this school, which is a Brazilian historical and cultural reference.
Meeting at 16:00, at the Office bar, next to the school, at Rua Clara Nunes, 43 – Madureira, RJ.
But for this final stretch, the Warriors really need help. Any amount will make a big difference in making this happen (Pix [email protected] – Rosimeri – Pagbank)
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Meri de Liz, singer, guitarist and composer, appeared for 30 years in the nights of Rio with the project “MPBSamba” – guitar and voice – an eclectic show highlighted by its quality, inspired by great names of Brazilian popular music. Vocal groups such as: Coral Harmonia and Coral Harte vocal, strengthened their musical formation. She began her career as a singer-songwriter in 1980, competing in several student festivals. Participated in the selected music group at the Galeria da Velha Guarda da Portela, as a guitarist and vocalist, together with the singer Ana Quintas, performing in Madureira’s white and blue feijoadas. She has worked as a health educator since 2008 in the Municipal Directorate of Health. Since 2014, he has been a member of the GRE S Portela composers wing. Currently, he is dedicated to composing soundtracks for musical theater, for example, “No tempo de Noel Rosa” and “O cradle do hero”; integrates the Sambistas Women’s Movement and the Mulheres na Roda de Samba project, in Rio de Janeiro. She is one of the founders of the partnership Samba das Guerreiras
Ana Quintas often shares the stage with Tia Surica, who has her as a musical godfather. He began his artistic career by winning the competition for the best cover by Clara Nunes in Domingão do Faustão. For six years he opened Feijoada da Família Portelense. Passionate about the stage and being close to the public, she chooses the fabrics and arenas of Rio as her favorite spaces for her projects. She is currently preparing her EP “Diretrizes” where there will be songs by Monarco, Moacyr Luz, Mauro do Cavaco composed exclusively for her. She is one of the founders of the partnership Samba das Guerreiras.
Rozzi Brazil, many cariocas! She has been a member of Portela’s composer wing since 2018. Articulator and cultural producer with passages in the theaters João Caetano, Tom Jobim, Municipal de Niterói, among many others. Multi-artist, emerging director with several awards. Anti-racist teacher. Co-author of three anthologies between 2020 and 2021, she has a solo book on the way – Histórias da Cabrochinha, from Editora Voz da Mulher. She goes through rap, takes her steps as a designer and photographer. Master Quebradeira at the University of Quebrada, UFRJ extension of PACC da Letras-UFRJ. Founder of the collective MUQ – Mulheres nas Quebradas. Founder of Associação Casa da Vida, an NGO whose mission is to promote, through Education, Culture and Health, the inclusion and development in favor of socially vulnerable women and children with serious illnesses. She is one of the founders of the partnership Samba das Guerreiras.
Simone Lyns, a singer with a powerful voice, who appears at the Carnival as a performer for various carnival associations; has passed through Beija Flori, Bloco Birita, among others. He directs the NGO Gato Preto, in the community of the same name, in Baixada Fluminense, with activities aimed at the education and culture of socially vulnerable children. She is the founder of the Samba das Guerreiras partnership, and has even baptized it with this name.
Dayse do Banjo is from Rio de Janeiro, born in the suburb of Padre Miguel. His father was a professional and good musician. His mother sang very well. Dayse grew up listening to samba, choro, bossa nova and soon started playing guitar. Later, out of admiration for the great Almir Guineto, she started playing the banjo and later became his band’s musical director and musical partner. He became a professional early on, always singing samba and mesmerizing everyone all over Brazil. (…)
“It is very important that samba has Dayse do Banjo, a woman, lyricist, singer and instrumentalist. She is a rare gem and has made an album that we should have in our homes.”
Andréa Moreira, pedagogue, psychopedagogue, writer, poet, director of the Mirim Filhos da Águia da Portela samba school, singer, composer, carnival judge and samba artist born in Portela. The guardian of her father’s legacy, the historic composer Wilson Moreira. Andréa, sings his art spreading the poetry he left us. She works in the field of education and currently two of her poems have been selected in the Conceição Evaristo Competition for Black Women’s Literature, composing the fiery compendium. He loves the carnival and likes to be able to contribute to it in some way.
Sandra Portella, from Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, in love with Clara Nunes, has established herself as one of the greatest samba singers of today. With two recorded CDs, one of them nominated for the Brazilian Music Award, in the category of best samba singer (2018) and participation in basic projects such as the CD “Sambas para a Mangueira”, by Biscoito Fino, produced by Centro Cultural Cartola, also nominated for the Music Award in the Best Samba CD category. Sandra usually shares the stage with musical and artistic references such as Martinho da Vila, Rildo Hora, Dudu Nobre, Diogo Nogueira, among others. Passion for rhythm. Samba for the ears. Samba for the heart.
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