Amazonian voices conquer space in streaming platforms; meet nine artists from the region

Victória Sales – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – More and more artists from the Legal Amazon are taking space on streaming platforms. Therefore, CENARIUM has separated nine artists that will make you enjoy the day even more and can still put in the playlist to share with friends and family. It is worth remembering that the Amazon covers 49% of the national territory and is formed by the states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, and Tocantins, and a part of Maranhão.

Acre

In the state of Acre, the outstanding singer is Sandra Buh. She is an actress, singer, costume designer, and teacher, and was born in Seringal Sacada da Samaúma, in the municipality of Brasileia, in Acre, where she had her first contact with art. She started her professional career in 1988, when she was 18 years old.

“I had never had contact with the show house, and at the time they called Ivan de Castela and Antônio de Alcântara to help us, and I went. It was the first time I went into a theater to perform. It was at the Cine Teatro Recreio and from then on I got completely involved and started performing in theaters”, she told the Continet portal.

Tocantins

In Tocantins, the singer Sebastião Barroso, also known as “Braguinha Barroso”, was born in Tocantinópolis and started his career while still studying, when he was chosen to be part of a choir. Soon after, he started playing at events and started a partnership with Neusinha Bahia, in which they eternalized the history of Palmas with the song “Canção de Amor a Palmas”.

Roraima

In Roraima, the artist Neuber Uchôa, born in 1959, began singing in auditorium programs at the age of 3. At the age of 13, he decided to learn to play the guitar and started to compose. In 1984, Neuber and other local artists set up the “Movimento Roraimeira”, with the valorization of regionalism. The artist became patrimony of the music in Roraima.

Rondônia

Rondônia, in turn, carries the artist Alex Ferrari, born in Ariquemes on April 21, 1982. He became known for the composition that went around Brazil “Bara Bará Bere Berê”. The song reached the first position in the song ranking in France in 2012. In addition, Alex composed the song “Gatinha Assanhada” with the singer Gabriel Valim, also re-recorded by the singer Gusttavo Lima.

Amazonas

In Amazonas, singer Duda Raposo, despite being only 19 years old, is fighting to conquer her space on the local scene. Since she was a little girl she has always had direct contact with music. In the past, on Sundays, recalls the artist, it was routine to gather the family, have a barbecue, and put CDs of all genres at maximum volume. With this, Duda was being inserted into this path, even if unpretentiously.

Mato Grosso

In Mato Grosso, Brazilian singer and composer Airo Barcelos was born in Rondonópolis, on December 21st. The artist had more than 250 songs recorded by big names in country music, such as Bruno & Marrone, Edson & Hudson, João Bosco & Vinícius, and Michel Teló. Airo passed away at the age of 34, and was considered, in 2020, one of the greatest composers of all time.

Amapá

Patricia Bastos, from Amapá, started dedicating herself to music at the age of 18. She participated in festivals, where she won prizes at the Festival da Canção Amapaense (Amapaense Song Festival), and at the Festival Internacional de Goiás, and since then she has stood out because of her voice timbre and tuning. With this, he started playing and singing in bars in the city of Macapá and shared moments with Nico Rezende, Lô Borges, and Nilson Chaves.

Pará

At 82 years of age, Ionete da Silveira Gama, also known as “Dona Onete”, was born in the countryside of Pará, in Belém. She was Secretary of Culture and a History and Paraense Studies teacher. She also founded the Folkloric Dances group and Carnival Associations.

She is also known as the “Diva of the carimbó chamegado”. She was a teacher for 25 years, but her dream has always been to make a living from music. In 2012, Onete released her first album, with boleros and carimbó. In 2016, she released the album “Banzeiro” and today carries in her repertoire more than 300 songs.

Maranhão

From Maranhão, Cecília Leite graduated in dance and since she was a child had access to art. The artist only assumed herself as a singer in 1999. Before, she worked as a reporter at Rede Globo. As a journalist, she worked in the cultural area and that is how she got into the universe of samba in Rio de Janeiro. She performed her first show at Beco das Garrafas, during the reopening of the “Little Club”.