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Joyce with Mauricio Maestro - Natureza (produced, arranged & conducted by Claus Ogerman) [2022]

1. Feminina - 11.25 (Joyce Moreno) 2. Moreno - 4.44 (Joyce Moreno) 3. Coração Sonhador - 5.33 (Claudio Guimarães/Mauricio Maestro) 4. Descompassadamente - 4.59 (Maurício Maestro/Joyce Moreno) 5. Mistérios - 5.32 (Joyce Moreno/Mauricio Maestro) 6. Ciclo Da Vida - 8.35 (Mauricio Maestro) 7. Pega Leve - 3.42 (Joyce Moreno)

Not long after the dawn of her career, as a teenager in Rio de Janeiro, Joyce was declared “one of the greatest singers” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Yet despite reputable accolades and the fact that she has since recorded over thirty acclaimed albums, Joyce never quite achieved the international recognition of the likes of Jobim, João Gilberto and Sergio Mendes, all of whom became global stars after releasing with major labels in the US.

There was a moment when it seemed Joyce might be on the cusp of an international breakthrough. While living in New York, she was approached by the great German producer Claus Ogerman. Ogerman had already played a pivotal role in the development and popularisation of Brazilian music in the 1960s, recording with some of the all-time greats like Jobim and João Gilberto, as well as North American idols like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Bill Evans.

“I met him in New York City, in 1977”, recalls Joyce. “I was living and playing there, and João Palma, Brazilian drummer who used to play with Jobim, introduced me to Claus. We had an audition, he liked what we were doing and decided to produce an album with us.”

Featuring fellow Brazilian musicians Mauricio Maestro (who wrote/co-wrote four of the songs), Nana Vasconcelos and Tutty Moreno, and some of the most in-demand stateside players including Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell and Buster Williams, the recordings for Natureza took place at Columbia Studios and Ogerman produced the album, provided the arrangements and conducted the orchestra.

But mysteriously, Natureza was never released, and what should have been Joyce’s big moment never happened. As Joyce remembers, “I returned home, but Claus and I remained in contact, by letters and phone calls. He was very enthusiastic about the album and tried to hook me up with Michael Franks. He wanted me to go back to NYC in order to re-record the vocals in English with new lyrics, which I actually wasn’t too happy about. But then I got pregnant with my third child and could not leave Brazil. And little by little our contact became rare, until I lost track of him completely. And that was it. I never heard from him again.”

While Claus was known to be something of an elusive character, the album’s disappearance might also have been a result of timing. The Brazilian craze was coming to an end, making way for disco and new wave at the end of the seventies, and Ogerman struggled to find a major label interested in his new Brazilian sensation. Additionally, as Joyce mentions, it wasn’t quite finished. Ogerman wanted to add finishing touches to the mix and to record alternative English lyrics for the US and international markets - a critical artistic difference between Joyce and Ogerman.

As the military dictatorship’s grip on Brazil began to subside in the 1980s, Joyce had a handful of hits in her home county, including a tribute to her daughters ‘Clareana’, and the iconic ‘Feminina’ - an intergenerational conversation between mother and daughter about what it means to be a woman. But already a feminist pioneer, these successes were hard fought. Joyce had caused controversy as a nineteen-year-old when she became the first in Brazil to sing from the first-person feminine perspective, and the institutional sexism she faced was worsened by the dictatorship who would often censor her music. Even once the Junta was out of the way, Joyce found herself up against the male-dominated major record companies in Brazil, who sought to dictate her career and sexualise her image, before dropping her for refusing to play along.

A few years after the success of her albums Feminina and Agua E Luz in Brazil, Joyce’s music began to find its way to the UK, Europe and Japan, and ‘Feminina’ and ‘Aldeia de Ogum’ became classics on the underground jazz-dance scenes of the mid to late-eighties and early-nineties.

The full-length version of ‘Feminina’ from the Natureza sessions was first heard on a Brazilian Jazz compilation in 1999 and ‘Descompassadamente’ was licensed for a CD compiling the work of Claus Ogerman in 2002. Following these, word began to get out about an unreleased Joyce album with Claus Ogerman and the legend of Natureza grew.

Forty-five years since it was recorded, Natureza finally sees the light of day, with Joyce’s Portuguese lyrics and vocals, as she intended. Featuring the fabled 11-minute version of ‘Feminina’, as well as the never before heard ‘Coração Sonhador’ composed and performed by Mauricio Maestro, Natureza’s release is a landmark in Brazilian music history and represents a triumphant, if overdue victory for Joyce as an outspoken female artist who has consistently refused to bow to patriarchal pressure.

***Disclaimer! While “Feminina” and “Descompassadamente’’ were mixed by legendary engineer Al Schmitt and mastered from the original master tapes, the remaining five tracks are unmixed. Due to significant deterioration of the master-tapes, the best audio source for these tracks was an unmixed tape copy Joyce had kept of the recordings. The best care has been taken in the restoration and mastering of this release, but the sound quality may differ from other releases on Far Out Recordings. We advise listening to sound clips before buying where possible.

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Joyce Moreno with Mauricio Maestro - Natureza (produced, arranged & conducted by Claus Ogerman) - full album from 1977 sessions is finally released, today!

Not long after the dawn of her career, as a teenager in Rio de Janeiro, Joyce was declared “one of the greatest singers” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Yet despite reputable accolades and the fact that she has since recorded over thirty acclaimed albums, Joyce never quite achieved the international recognition of the likes of Jobim, João Gilberto and Sergio Mendes, all of whom became global stars after releasing with major labels in the US. There was a moment when it seemed Joyce might be on the cusp of an international breakthrough. While living in New York, Joyce was approached by the great German producer Claus Ogerman. Ogerman had already played a pivotal role in the development and popularisation of Brazilian music in the 1960s, recording with some of the all-time greats like Jobim and João Gilberto, as well as North American idols like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Bill Evans. "I met him in New York City, in 1977”, recalls Joyce. “I was living and playing there, and João Palma, Brazilian drummer who used to play with Jobim, introduced me to Claus. We had an audition, he liked what we were doing and decided to produce an album with us.” Featuring fellow Brazilian musicians Mauricio Maestro (who wrote/co-wrote four of the songs), Nana Vasconcelos and Tutty Moreno, and some of the most in-demand stateside players including Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell and Buster Williams, the recordings for Natureza took place at Columbia Studios and Ogerman produced the album, provided the arrangements and conducted the orchestra. But mysteriously, Natureza was never released, and what should have been Joyce’s big moment never happened. As Joyce remembers, “I returned home, but Claus and I remained in contact, by letters and phone calls. He was very enthusiastic about the album and tried to hook me up with Michael Franks. He wanted me to go back to NYC in order to re-record the vocals in English with new lyrics, which I actually wasn’t too happy about. But then I got pregnant with my third child and could not leave Brazil. And little by little our contact became rare, until I lost track of him completely. And that was it. I never heard from him again." While Claus was known to be something of an elusive character, the album’s disappearance might also have been a result of timing. The Brazilian craze was coming to an end, making way for disco and new wave at the end of the seventies, and Ogerman struggled to find a major label interested in a new Brazilian sensation. Additionally, as Joyce mentions, it wasn’t quite finished. Ogerman wanted to add finishing touches to the mix and to record alternative English lyrics for the US and international markets - a critical artistic difference between Joyce and Ogerman. As the military dictatorship’s grip on Brazil began to subside in the 1980s, Joyce had a handful of hits in her home county, including a tribute to her daughters ‘Clareana’, and the iconic ‘Feminina’ - an intergenerational conversation between mother and daughter about what it means to be a woman. But already a feminist pioneer, these successes were hard fought. Joyce had caused controversy as a nineteen-year-old when she became the first in Brazil to sing from the first-person feminine perspective, and the institutional sexism she faced was worsened by the dictatorship who would often censor her music. Even once the Junta was out of the way, Joyce found herself up against the male-dominated major record companies in Brazil, who sought to dictate her career and sexualise her image, before dropping her for refusing to play along. A few years after the success of her albums Feminina and Agua E Luz in Brazil, Joyce’s music began to find its way to the UK, Europe and Japan, and “Feminina” and “Aldeia de Ogum” became classics on the underground jazz-dance scenes of the mid to late-eighties and early-nineties. The full-length version of “Feminina” from the Natureza sessions was first heard on a Brazilian Jazz compilation in 1999 and “Descompassadamente” was licensed for a CD compiling the work of Claus Ogerman in 2002. Following these, word began to get out about an unreleased Joyce album with Claus Ogerman and the legend of Natureza grew. Forty-five years since it was recorded, Natureza finally sees the light of day, as Joyce intended: with her own Portuguese lyrics and vocals. Featuring the fabled 11-minute version of ‘Feminina’, as well as the never before heard ‘Coração Sonhador’ composed and performed by Mauricio Maestro, Natureza’s release is a landmark in Brazilian music history and represents a triumphant, if overdue victory for Joyce as an outspoken female artist who has consistently refused to bow to patriarchal pressure. ***Disclaimer! While “Feminina” and “Descompassadamente'' were mixed by legendary engineer Al Schmitt and mastered from the original master tapes, the remaining five tracks are unmixed. Due to significant deterioration of the master-tapes, the best audio source for these tracks was an unmixed tape copy Joyce had kept of the recordings. The best care has been taken in the restoration and mastering of this release, but the sound quality may differ from other releases on Far Out Recordings. We advise listening to sound clips before buying where possible. Joyce Moreno - Lead vocals, lead guitar (all tracks, except for ‘Coração Sonhador’ and ‘Ciclo da Vida’), rhythm guitar & vocals on ‘Ciclo da Vida’ Mauricio Maestro – Rhythm guitar & vocals on all tracks, lead vocals and guitar on ‘Coração Sonhador’ and ‘Ciclo da Vida’ Buster Williams - Double Bass João Palma - Drums (all tracks except for ‘Moreno’, ‘Pega Leve’ and ‘Descompassadamente’) Naná Vasconcelos - Percussion Tutty Moreno - Percussion, drums on ‘Moreno’ and ‘Pega Leve’ Joe Farrell - Flute (except for ‘Pega Leve’) Ion Muniz - Flute on ‘Pega Leve’ Michael Brecker - Tenor saxophone Mike Manieri – Vibraphone Warren Bernhardt - Keyboards Orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman Produced by Claus Ogerman Recorded by Frank Laico at Columbia Studios, NYC, 1977

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Música e letra: Antonio Carlos Jobim 💫

“Wave” - João Gilberto (Amoroso, 1977)

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Kalani | Gift from Heaven - Trailer from Nuno Dias on Vimeo.

“Kalani” Premieres this Friday at Surf At Lisbon Festival.

For the past 3 years, filmmaker Nuno Dias has been busy capturing the life of one of the most enigmatic phenomenons of the Big wave Scene, Kalani Lattanzi.

Filmed in Nazaré and Rio de Janeiro, this documentary portrays Brazilian waterman Kalani Lattanzi’s route, all the way from his origins and first contact with the ocean in Brasil, to Nazaré in Portugal. Where ultimately, with his body alone, no fins or boards or jets, he faces the biggest waves in the world, in the most pure form of wave riding: bodysurf.

“Kalani - Gift from Heaven” also counts with the participation and testimonies of some of the biggest names in the big wave scene, that crossed or witnessed Kalani’s path, names like Garrett McNamara, Andrew Cotton, Ross Clarke-Jones, Hugo Vau, Maya Gabeira, Carlos Burle, Nic Von Rupp, Lucas Chumbo, David Langer, Tim Bonython, Tom Lowe, Dudu Pedra and João Zik.

This production contains a lot of unreleased and unique big wave imagery of Nazaré, including historic footage of the biggest waves ever attempted by a bodysurfer. The result is enriched by a variety of different angles: action from land, aerial photography or water footage, in what is a particularly difficult sport to capture on video.

At 25, Nuno Dias has filmed some of the most iconic Nazaré moments, is a multiple WSL Big wave award winner, including the filming of a Guiness Record Wave. His film “Empties” won best short film in 2018 at SAL, and later the Festival Lagoa Surf e Arte, in Florianópolis, Brasil.

“Kalani - Gift from Heaven” premieres this Friday, November the 8th at 9h30 pm, in Cinema São Jorge in Lisbon. Tickets available on Ticketline and at the Cinema São Jorge’s Ticket Shop. For more info contact @kalanithefilm on Instagram

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[TASK 137: MOZAMBIQUE]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 200+ Mozambican faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Maria João / Maria João Monteiro Grancha (1956) Mozambican - singer.

Stella Mendonça (1970) Mozambican - singer.

Mariza / Marisa dos Reis Nunes (1973) 1/4 Mozambican, 3/4 mix of Portuguese, Spanish, German - singer-songwriter.

Neyma / Neyma Julio Alfredo (1979) Mozambican, Portuguese - singer.

Dama do Bling / Ivánnea da Silva Mudanisse (1979) Mozambican - singer.

Gabriela Langa / Gabriela Mamie Zango Mubanguiane (1980) Mozambican - singer.

Lizha James / Elisa Lisete James Humbane (1982) Mozambican - singer.

Marllen Preta Negra (1983) Mozambican - singer.

Liloca (1985) Mozambican - singer.

Iveth / Iveth Mafundza (1985) Mozambican - singer.

Daisy Gonçalves (1987) Mozambican - tv host.

Júlia Duarte (1988) Mozambican - singer.

Nayla Cumbe (1991) Mozambican - singer.

Sheila Ibrahimo (1995) Mozambican - tv personality.

Filomena Maricoa (1998) Mozambican - singer.

Mingas / Elisa Domingas Jamisse (?) Mozambican - singer.

Elsa Mangue (?) Mozambican - singer.

Isabel Novella (?) Mozambican - singer.

Safira Mariquele (?) Mozambican - model.

Rosália Mboa (?) Mozambican - singer.

Yolanda Chicane / Yolanda Kakana (?) Mozambican - singer.

Irellia Veola (?) Mozambican - model and Miss Mozambique 2018.

Lidia Maolela (?) Mozambican - model and Miss Mozambique 2016.

Stephanie (?) Mozambican, Northern Sotho (from Mokopane), Portuguese, German - Instagrammer (miss_sandows).

Sheila Ibrahimo (?) Mozambican - tv host and blogger (instagram: sheilaibrahimo).

Queen Marlise Sacur (?) Mozambican - Miss University Africa 2018 (instagram: m.sacur).

Del Lombard (?) Mozambican - Instagrammer (dellombard).

July Murane (?) Mozambican - model (instagram: lyju_muranynha).

Sílvia Nickita (?) Mozambican - model (instagram: silvia_nickita).

Sheron Sultan (?) Mozambican, South African, Unknown - Instagram (sheron_fit_sultan).

Maria (?) Mozambican - singer (Instagram: thekingmaria).

F - Athletes:

Binta Jambane (1942) Mozambican - sprinter.

Ludovina de Oliveira (1955) Mozambican - discus thrower.

Carolina Araujo (1971) Mozambican - swimmer.

Maria Mutola (1972) Mozambican - track and field athlete.

Tina Paulino (1973) Mozambican - runner,

Clarisse Machanguana (1976) Mozambican - basketball player.

Leonor Piuza (1978) Mozambican - runner.

Valerdina Manhonga (1980) Mozambican - basketball player.

Elisa Cossa (1980) Mozambican - sprinting and long-distance runner.

Ermelinda Zamba (1981) Mozambican - swimmer.

Deolinda Ngulela (1981) Mozambican - basketball player.

Cátia Halar (1982) Mozambican - basketball player.

Anabela Cossa (1986) Mozambican - basketball player.

Deolinda Gimo (1987) Mozambican - basketball player.

Miriam Corsini (1989) Mozambican - swimmer.

Ximene Gomes (1989) Mozambican - swimmer.

Jessica Teixeira Vieira (1991) Mozambican - swimmer.

Leia Dongue (1991) Mozambican - basketball player.

Maria Muchavo (1992) Mozambican - paralympic track and field athlete.

Silvia Panguana (1993) Mozambican - hudler.

Maria Machongua (1993) Mozambican - boxer.

Jannah Sonnenschein (1996) Mozambican - swimmer.

Neidy Ocuane (1997) Mozambican - basketball player.

Gisela Cossa (1999) Mozambican - swimmer.

Acacia Mate (?) Mozambican - sprinter.

M:

Afric Simone / Henrique Simone (1939) Mozambican / Brazilian - singer, guitarist, dancer, and entertainer.

Wazimbo / Humberto Carlos Benfica (1948) Mozambican - singer.

Joe Madison (1949) African-American [including Mozambican, Sierra Leonean] - talk show host.

José Castelo Branco (1962) 1/4 Mozambican, 3/4 Portuguese - singer and tv personality.

Stewart Sukuma / Luis Pereira (1963) Mozambican - singer.

General D / Sérgio Matsinhe (1971) Mozambican - rapper.

Moreira Chonguiça (1977) Mozambican - singer and saxophonist.

Duas Caras / Hermínio Chissano (1978) Mozambican - rapper.

Samito (1979) Mozambican - singer-songwriter and producer.

Mr. Bow / Bowito / Salvador Pedro Maiaze (1982) Mozambican - singer-songwriter.

King Levi (1982) Mozambican - instagrammer (sr.king_dapper).

Tio Big (1983) Mozambican - tv presenter.

Azagaia / Edson da Luz (1984) Mozambican / Cape Verdean - rapper.

Ace Nells / Nelson Elísio Célio Nhachugue (1985) Mozambican - singer and presenter.

G2 / Guerte Geraldo Bambo (1985) Mozambican - singer.

Hugo Diogo (1985) Mozambican - tv host and rapper.

Laylizzy / Edson Abel Jeremias Tchamo (1988) Mozambican - rapper-songwriter.

Hernâni da Silva (1989) Mozambican - rapper.

Deltino Guerreiro (1990) Mozambican - singer.

Messias Maricoa (1993) Mozambican - singer.

MC Roger / Rogério Dinis (?) Mozambican / Portuguese - singer.

Ras Haitrm / Rui Paulo Matavele (?) Mozambican - singer.

Eduardo Carimo (?) Mozambican - multi-instrumentalist.

Dom Wilson (?) Mozambican - Instagrammer (domwilson_odm).

Feliciano dos Santos (?) Mozambican - musician.

Ivan Dread (?) Mozambican - Instagrammer (ivankhoteja).

Edy Son Leonely Cumby (?) Mozambican - Instagrammer (_da_maafia).

M - Athletes:

Leonel Pegado (1931) Mozambican - footballer.

Vicente Lucas (1935) Mozambican - footballer.

Manaca / Carlos Alberto Manaca Dias (1946) Mozambican - footballer.

Abdul Ismail (1948) Mozambican - hurdler.

Stelio Craveirinha (1950) Mozambican - long jumper.

Shéu / Shéu Han (1953) Mozambican - footballer.

Eduardo Costa (1954) Mozambican - sprinter.

Pedro Mulomo (1954) Mozambican - long-distance runner.

Jaime Rodrigues (1955) Mozambican - sprinter.

Vicente Daniel (1956) Mozambican - sprinter.

Leonardo Loforte (1956) Mozambican - sprinter.

André Titos (1958) Mozambican - sprinter.

Henrique Ferreira (1960) Mozambican - sprinter.

Domingos Mendes (1961) Mozambican - hurdler.

Archer Fausto (1962) Mozambican - boxer.

Pedro Gonçalvo (1964) Mozambican - sprinter.

Alberto Machaze (1964) Mozambican - boxer.

Chiquinho Conde (1965) Mozambican - footballer.

Daúto Faquirá (1965) Mozambican - footballer.

Lucas Sinoia (1966) Mozambican - boxer.

Paulo Noronha (1966) Mozambican - triple jumper.

Pedro Cruz (1966) Mozambican - swimmer.

Domingos Chivavele (1966) Mozambican - swimmer.

Sergio Fafitine (1969) Mozambican - swimmer.

Arnaldo Ouana (1969) Mozambican - footballer.

Jojó / Jorge Miguel Moreira Larrouy Fernandes (1970) Mozambican - footballer.

Nelinho  / Nasser Amade Carimo (1971) Mozambican - footballer.

Tomás Inguana (1973) Mozambican - footballer.

Tico-Tico / Manuel José Luís Bucuane (1973) Mozambican - footballer.  

Sérgio Lomba (1973) Mozambican - footballer.

Nuro Tualibudane (1973) Mozambican - footballer.

Macamito / Paulo Macamo (1974) Mozambican - footballer.

João Rafael Kapango (1975) Mozambican - footballer.

Ilidio Matusse (1975) Mozambican - swimmer.

Armando Sá (1975) Mozambican - footballer.

Jossias Macamo (1976) Mozambican - footballer.

Paulito / Antonio Trigo (1976) Mozambican - footballer.

Hélder Muianga (1976) Mozambican - footballer.

Bineesh Vadavathy (1977) Mozambican - cricketer.

Dário Monteiro (1977) Mozambican - footballer.

Carlos Fumo Gonçalves (1979) Mozambican - footballer.

Sete Muianga (1979) Mozambican - basketball player.

Genito / Eugenio Fernando Bila (1979) Mozambican - footballer.

Gerson Novela (1979) Mozambican - basketball player

Helton Samo Cunha (1980) Mozambican - footballer.

Tininho / Miguel Ângelo Karim Simões Fazenda (1980) Mozambican - footballer. 

Paulo Murinello (1981) Mozambican - ruby player.

Gabito / Gabriel Macuvele (1981) Mozambican - footballer.

Campira / Samuel Luis Chapanga (1982) Mozambican - footballer.

Jorge Duvane (1982) Mozambican - middle-distance runner.

Marlon Acácio (1982) Mozambican - judoka.

Paíto / Martinho Martins Mukana (1982) Mozambican - footballer.

Albino Cossa (1982) Mozambican - footballer.

Almiro Lobo (1982) Mozambican - footballer.

Custódio Muchate (1982) Mozambican - basketball player.

Manuel de Jesus Lopes (1982) Mozambican - footballer.

Fanuel Massingue (1982) Mozambican - basketball player.

Domingues / Elias Gaspar Pelembe (1983) Mozambican - footballer.

Samir Adam (1983) Mozambican - basketball player.

Danito Parruque (1983) Mozambican - footballer.

Maurício Pequenino (1983) Mozambican - footballer.

Octávio Magoliço (1984) Mozambican - basketball player.

Eduardo Jumisse (1984) Mozambican - footballer.

Dario Khan (1984) Mozambican - footballer.

Mano / Celso Halilo de Abdul (1984) Mozambican - footballer.

Carlos Chimomole (1984) Mozambican - footballer.

Kurt Couto (1985) Mozambican - hurdler.

Lamá / Odimba Otshudi Lamá (1985) Mozambican - footballer.

Fernando Mandlate (1985) Mozambican - basketball player.

Sontio / Apson Manjate (1985) Mozambican - footballer.

Edson Madeira (1985) Mozambican - judoka.

Momed Hagi (1985) Mozambican - footballer.

Ricardo Campos (1985) Mozambican - footballer.

Francisco Massinga (1986) Mozambican - footballer.

Josemar Machaíss (1987) Mozambican - footballer.

Hélder Pelembe (1987) Mozambican - footballer.

Zainadine Júnior (1988) Mozambican - footballer.

Simão Mate Junior (1988) Mozambican - footballer.

Mexer / Edson André Sitoe (1988) Mozambican - footballer.

Leonel Matonse (1988) Mozambican - swimmer.

Telinho / Stélio Marcelino Ernesto (1988) Mozambican - footballer.

Saddan Guambe (1988) Mozambican - swimmer.

Diogo António Alberto (1989) Mozambican - footballer.

Zé Luís / Luis de Sousa Pereira Vaz (1989) Mozambican - footballer.

Flavio Seholhe (1990) Mozambican - runner.

Chakyl Camal (1990) Mozambican - swimmer.

Reginaldo Faife (1990) Mozambican - footballer.

Jerry Sitoe (1990) Mozambican - footballer.

Pio Matos (1990) Mozambican - basketball player

Jeitoso (1991) Mozambican - footballer.

Maninho / Manuel Fernandes (1991) Mozambican - footballer.

Mussa Chamaune (1992) Mozambican - canoeist.

Geraldo Matsimbe (1992) Mozambican - footballer.

Juliano Máquina (1993) Mozambican - boxer.

Bheu Januário (1993) Mozambican - footballer.

Ludovico Corsini (1993) Mozambican - swimmer.

Edson Almeida (1994) Mozambican - footballer.

Reinildo Mandava (1994) Mozambican - footballer.

Clésio Baúque (1994) Mozambican - footballer.

Edmilson Gabriel Dove (1994) Mozambican - footballer.

Alberto Mamba (1994) Mozambican - runner.

Joaquim Lobo (1995) Mozambican - canoeist.

Gildo Vilanculos (1995) Mozambican - footballer.

Luís Miquissone (1995) Mozambican - footballer.

Faisal Bangal (1996) Mozambican - footballer.

Witi / Witiness Chimoio João Quembo (1996) Mozambican - footballer.

Igor Mogne (1996) Mozambican - swimmer.

Creve Armando Machava (1996) Mozambican - hurdler.

Denilson da Costa (1998) Mozambican - swimmer.

Nelson Nhamussua (2001) Mozambican - basketball player

Dias Alface (?) Mozambican - long-distance runner.

Vicente Santos (?) Mozambican - middle-distance runner.

Neuso Sigauque (?) Mozambican - boxer.

Raimundo Franisse (?) Mozambican - swimmer.

Ntewane Machel (?) Mozambican - swimmer.

Edgar Martins (?) Mozambican - swimmer.

Rogerio Silva (?) Mozambican - swimmer.

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(Natureza (produced, arranged & conducted by Claus Ogerman) | Joyce with Mauricio Maestro | Joyce Morenoから)

Natureza (produced, arranged & conducted by Claus Ogerman) by Joyce with Mauricio Maestro

Not long after the dawn of her career, as a teenager in Rio de Janeiro, Joyce was declared “one of the greatest singers” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Yet despite reputable accolades and the fact that she has since recorded over thirty acclaimed albums, Joyce never quite achieved the international recognition of the likes of Jobim, João Gilberto and Sergio Mendes, all of whom became global stars after releasing with major labels in the US. There was a moment when it seemed Joyce might be on the cusp of an international breakthrough. While living in New York, Joyce was approached by the great German producer Claus Ogerman. Ogerman had already played a pivotal role in the development and popularisation of Brazilian music in the 1960s, recording with some of the all-time greats like Jobim and João Gilberto, as well as North American idols like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Bill Evans. "I met him in New York City, in 1977”, recalls Joyce. “I was living and playing there, and João Palma, Brazilian drummer who used to play with Jobim, introduced me to Claus. We had an audition, he liked what we were doing and decided to produce an album with us.” Featuring fellow Brazilian musicians Mauricio Maestro (who wrote/co-wrote four of the songs), Nana Vasconcelos and Tutty Moreno, and some of the most in-demand stateside players including Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell and Buster Williams, the recordings for Natureza took place at Columbia Studios and Ogerman produced the album, provided the arrangements and conducted the orchestra. But mysteriously, Natureza was never released, and what should have been Joyce’s big moment never happened. As Joyce remembers, “I returned home, but Claus and I remained in contact, by letters and phone calls. He was very enthusiastic about the album and tried to hook me up with Michael Franks. He wanted me to go back to NYC in order to re-record the vocals in English with new lyrics, which I actually wasn’t too happy about. But then I got pregnant with my third child and could not leave Brazil. And little by little our contact became rare, until I lost track of him completely. And that was it. I never heard from him again." While Claus was known to be something of an elusive character, the album’s disappearance might also have been a result of timing. The Brazilian craze was coming to an end, making way for disco and new wave at the end of the seventies, and Ogerman struggled to find a major label interested in a new Brazilian sensation. Additionally, as Joyce mentions, it wasn’t quite finished. Ogerman wanted to add finishing touches to the mix and to record alternative English lyrics for the US and international markets - a critical artistic difference between Joyce and Ogerman. As the military dictatorship’s grip on Brazil began to subside in the 1980s, Joyce had a handful of hits in her home county, including a tribute to her daughters ‘Clareana’, and the iconic ‘Feminina’ - an intergenerational conversation between mother and daughter about what it means to be a woman. But already a feminist pioneer, these successes were hard fought. Joyce had caused controversy as a nineteen-year-old when she became the first in Brazil to sing from the first-person feminine perspective, and the institutional sexism she faced was worsened by the dictatorship who would often censor her music. Even once the Junta was out of the way, Joyce found herself up against the male-dominated major record companies in Brazil, who sought to dictate her career and sexualise her image, before dropping her for refusing to play along. A few years after the success of her albums Feminina and Agua E Luz in Brazil, Joyce’s music began to find its way to the UK, Europe and Japan, and “Feminina” and “Aldeia de Ogum” became classics on the underground jazz-dance scenes of the mid to late-eighties and early-nineties. The full-length version of “Feminina” from the Natureza sessions was first heard on a Brazilian Jazz compilation in 1999 and “Descompassadamente” was licensed for a CD compiling the work of Claus Ogerman in 2002. Following these, word began to get out about an unreleased Joyce album with Claus Ogerman and the legend of Natureza grew. Forty-five years since it was recorded, Natureza finally sees the light of day, as Joyce intended: with her own Portuguese lyrics and vocals. Featuring the fabled 11-minute version of ‘Feminina’, as well as the never before heard ‘Coração Sonhador’ composed and performed by Mauricio Maestro, Natureza’s release is a landmark in Brazilian music history and represents a triumphant, if overdue victory for Joyce as an outspoken female artist who has consistently refused to bow to patriarchal pressure. ***Disclaimer! While “Feminina” and “Descompassadamente'' were mixed by legendary engineer Al Schmitt and mastered from the original master tapes, the remaining five tracks are unmixed. Due to significant deterioration of the master-tapes, the best audio source for these tracks was an unmixed tape copy Joyce had kept of the recordings. The best care has been taken in the restoration and mastering of this release, but the sound quality may differ from other releases on Far Out Recordings. We advise listening to sound clips before buying where possible. クレジット2022年9月30日リリース Joyce Moreno - Lead vocals, lead guitar (all tracks, except for ‘Coração Sonhador’ and ‘Ciclo da Vida’), rhythm guitar & vocals on ‘Ciclo da Vida’ Mauricio Maestro – Rhythm guitar & vocals on all tracks, lead vocals and guitar on ‘Coração Sonhador’ and ‘Ciclo da Vida’ Buster Williams - Double Bass João Palma - Drums (all tracks except for ‘Moreno’, ‘Pega Leve’ and ‘Descompassadamente’) Naná Vasconcelos - Percussion Tutty Moreno - Percussion, drums on ‘Moreno’ and ‘Pega Leve’ Joe Farrell - Flute (except for ‘Pega Leve’) Ion Muniz - Flute on ‘Pega Leve’ Michael Brecker - Tenor saxophone Mike Manieri – Vibraphone Warren Bernhardt - Keyboards Orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman Produced by Claus Ogerman Recorded by Frank Laico at Columbia Studios, NYC, 1977 ‘Feminina’ and ‘Descompassadamente’ mixed by Al Schmitt

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Discovering the world

São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹

Basic facts

Official name: República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe (Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe)

Capital city: São Tomé

Population: 220,372 (2023)

Demonym: São Toméan

Type of government: unitary semi-presidential republic

Head of state: Carlos Vila Nova (President)

Head of government: Patrice Trovoada (Prime Minister)

Gross domestic product (purchasing power parity): $1 billion (2024)

Gini coefficient of wealth inequality: 56.3% (high) (2017)

Human Development Index: 0.613 (medium) (2022)

Currency: dobra (STN)

Fun fact: It was uninhabited before its discovery.

Etymology

The country’s name comes from Saint Thomas the Apostle, because the islands were discovered on the saint’s feast day. “Príncipe” is a shortening of the Portuguese for “Isle of the Prince”.

Geography

São Tomé and Príncipe is located in Central Africa, west of Gabon, and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.

The islands have a tropical rainforest climate. Temperatures range from 20 °C (68 °F) in winter to 30 °C (86 °F) in spring. The average annual temperature is 25.1 °C (77.1 °F).

The country is divided into seven districts (distritos). The largest cities in São Tomé and Príncipe are São Tomé, Santo Amaro, Neves, Santana, and Trindade.

History

1470: European discovery

1485-1975: Overseas Province of São Tomé and Príncipe

1953: Batepá Massacre

1975-present: Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe

2003: coup d’état

Economy

São Tomé and Príncipe mainly imports from Portugal, Gabon, and Angola and exports to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain. Its top exports are liquefied petroleum gas, palm oil, and cocoa beans.

It used to be the world’s largest sugar exporter. Services represent 58% of the GDP, followed by agriculture (23%) and industry (19%).

São Tomé and Príncipe is a member of the African Union, the Economic Community of Central African States, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, and the Community of Sahel-Saharan States.

Demographics

70% of the population is black, while 30% is mixed. The main religion is Christianity, practiced by 81.1% of the population, 71.9% of which is Catholic.

It has a negative net migration rate and a fertility rate of 3.8 children per woman. 75.8% of the population lives in urban areas. Life expectancy is 65.4 years and the median age is 19.3 years. The literacy rate is 92.8%.

Languages

The official language of the country is Portuguese, spoken by 98.4% of the population. Angolar Creole (6.6%), Forro Creole (36.2%), and Principense Creole (1%) are recognized regional languages.

Culture

São Toméan culture is a mixture of African and Portuguese influences. One of the most iconic handicrafts is a whistle shaped like a bird and made of bamboo and gourd.

Men traditionally wear a white shirt, black pants, a tie, and a hat. Women wear a white loose blouse, a wide skirt, a sash around the waist and chest, and a head wrap.

Architecture

Traditional houses in São Tomé and Príncipe are supported by stilts and made of wood and tin.

Cuisine

The São Toméan diet is based on beans, fish, seafood, and vegetables. Typical dishes include banana bolo (sponge cake with bananas and caramel sauce), barriga de peixe (a dish of grilled fish with breadfruit and rice), calulu (fish and prawns with eggplant, okra, onion, and tomato), frango com molho de café (chicken with coffee sauce), and matata (seafood stew with peanuts).

Holidays and festivals

Like other Christian countries, São Tomé and Príncipe celebrates Christmas Day. It also commemorates New Year’s Day and Labor Day.

Specific São Toméan holidays include Martyrs’ Day on February 3, Independence Day on July 12, Armed Forces Day on September 6, Agricultural Reform Day on September 30, and São Tomé Day on December 21.

Independence Day

Other celebrations include the Feast of the Holy Spirit, which involves a specific soup and processions; the Festival of São João, which includes dancing, music, and parades, and the International Fair of São Tomé and Príncipe, which showcases cultural, economic, and technological achievements.

Feast of the Holy Spirit

Landmarks

There are no UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Landmarks include Boca de Inferno, the Fort of São Sebastião, the Great Canine, Obo National Park, and the Our Lady of Grace Cathedral.

Fort of São Sebastião

Famous people

Camilo Domingos - singer

Cesária Évora - singer

Francisco José Tenreiro - writer

Joazhifel Soares - soccer player

José de Almada Negreiros - artist

José Vianna da Motta - composer

Lanirvana Vargas - model

Leonor da Silva de Sousa - movie director

Manuela Margarido - poet

Naide Gomes - athlete

Francisco José Tenreiro

You can find out more about life in São Tomé and Príncipe in this post and this video.

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Did this one as separate post instead of just answering the ask because the answer got long and I didn't write all in just one day.

My main picks would be Caster Sekien Toriyama because I just think he would be extremely cool, Rider Bellerophon because his name is there since Fate/stay Night as Medusa's NP but there’s no sign of the man himself and pretty much any Brazilian Servant since we still don't have any. My Twitter TL discussed this 2~3 years ago and made a Grail War roster using only Brazilian Servants (but we got 2 Casters because we couldn’t settle on the best option). More details about all of them under the cut:

Sekien Toriyama: Toriyama was an artist from Edo. Before his drawings, youkais were considered invisible formless spiritual monsters born of human fear and no one could know exactly what they looked like. However, Toriyama dedicated his life to publish 4 volumes of an art compilation called “Gazu Hyakki Yagyou”, a sort of a youkai Pokédex where he drew all he could find and gave the famous youkai the looks we know them for today. (Trivia: the later volumes of his work contains youkais no anthropologist could find any previous  mythological information for, so it’s highly speculated he started making youkais up for art money at some point)

As a Caster, his moveset would obviously be focused on youkai summoning with the Gazu Hyakki Yagyou as a passive Noble Phantasm enabling that. He could also have a skill that allowed creating new youkai from scratch if he fulfilled some condition (like having already used up most known youkais in battle).

Bellerophon: Bellerophon is a young Greek hero, son of Poseidon and famous for 3 great feats. When Perseus killed Medusa, the Pegasus was born from her blood and many people tried to tame him without success. Bellerophon heard that and tamed it for his first feat. Ever since then the Pegasus became his personal horse and he was seen mounting it in every battle he fought. The second feat was slaying the Chimera. No one could that before because the Chimera breathed fire and that would melt any blade that would be used against it. Belle however had the brilliant idea of shielding the tip of his spear with a huge lead ball. He flew above the Chimera with the Pegasus and dropped with the full weight of his lead ball spear into its head. The Chimera’s fire breath melted the only lead, leaving his spear inside intact and with that he slayed the monster with one blow. I don’t think that’s how thermodynamics work in real life, but worked for him in the legend. The third feat was Bellerophon’s death. Due to fame and success earned with his two previous feats, the arrogant ass thought he was good enough to deserve a spot among the gods and started flying his Pegasus to the Olympus. Zeus said no (read: dropped him of his horse). Bellerophon actually survived the fall, but blind and with his legs paralyzed in the wasteland, just waiting to die.

As Rider, obviously have the Pegasus as main NP most likely identical to Medusa’s version. He probably would also have a second NP based on his lead ball trick. I’m think his initial spear could have a ball close to tip kinda like Ren from Shaman King and he could use to block an enemy Noble Phantasm once, and if he did, the ball would melt revealing his true better spear inside.

Brazilian Saber (King Pedro I): King Pedro IV of Portugal/King Pedro I of Brazil (full name: Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim) is not really a Brazilian person, but is probably the most known name in Brazilian history so we couldn’t go without including the guy. Pedro was born in Portugal, where he lived the first 10 years of his life, until the war with France forced the Portuguese Royal Family to escape to Brazil. When the King went back to Portugal, Pedro stayed back as the reigning prince in charge of Brazil. Later, his father King João VI of Portugal died and needed a successor, so Portugal called him back. Brazil was more free than ever with a reigning prince living in the colony, so 8000 people signed a petition begging him to stay and so he stayed going directly against Portugal’s orders. This lead to some little war with Portugal for 9 months until probably the most iconic moment in Brazilian history, where Pedro yelled “Indenpendence or death!” at the shores of the Ipiranga River. Portugal couldn’t really kill him at this point, so Brazil’s Indepedence was declared and he became the First Emperor of Brazil (his son Pedro II was the second and last, yeah the Brazilian imperial era didn’t last very long). He became known as “The Liberator” in Brazil for being responsible for our Independence and as “Soldier King” in Portugal because of how war was an ever-present thing in his life. His government as the Emperor lasted 9 years and was marked mainly by economic crisis generated by the Independence process (Brazil had to pay compensation to Portugal) and a lost war against Cisplatina. Eventually he grew a lot of political enemies for being Portuguese and therefore dealing too much with Portugal and for being too liberal for his time (he rejected everything that went against free speech and was planning to end slavery), so he was forced to resign and went back to Portugal. There he caused a civil war and died before it was over (sasuga Soldier King).

As a Saber, he would probably get a very low rank Imperial Priviledge, high stats for his reputation as Soldier King and a conceptual Noble Phantasm based on “Indepence or death”. I’m thinking of him declaring a condition to an enemy and if he is not killed within a time limit this condition is fulfilled.

Brazilian Archer (Lantern):��Lantern (Lampião in Portuguese) is the most famous and successful cangaceiro ever. Foreigners probably have no idea what cangaço is so I guess I’ll have to explain that as well... Ok, the Northeast was basically this huge wasteland where everyone was poor (and kinda still is, to a much smaller extent) and some people had to resort to banditry to feed their villages and to get back at the government for ignoring their part of the country. Cangaceiros were pretty much pirates, but in the wasteland instead of the sea (no, they didn’t ride ships through the desert), including the part were they are constantly herofied in adventure literature. The main weapons associated with cangaço are pistols, small rifles, shotguns and peixeiras (huge knifes meant to remove the scales from big fishes but used by cangaceiros as make-shift swords). They didn’t have pirate flags but they did sign themselves in other way, with cangaceiro hats. The number one cangaceiro was Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, who joined the cangaço after his father was shot dead by the police and his success eventually made him known as the Cangaço King (insert One Piece joke here). That would make him the Brazilian equivalent to Blackbeard, but we can all hope he won’t get the Blackbeard treatment in Fate/. By the way, he is called Lantern because they said his gunshots were so fast they would illuminate the night. He led a strong band of over 100 sand pirates and dominated the Northeastern wasteland until his band was betrayed by a member, ambushed by the police and everyone got machinegunned. Ironically, Lantern went down exactly like his dear old dad who made him start this whole thing. 

As an Archer, he would use mainly his gun and peixeira as primary weapons and maybe have a sand-related skill along with Honor of Pirates. The story behind his nickname is badass enough to warrant at least a Skill if not a minor Noble Phanstasm. For his main NP I was thinking about the desert as a Reality Marble with his band alongside, but that’s kinda too similar to Ionioi Hetairoi. Sorry for the lack of better ideas.

Brazilian Lancer (Curupira): Already explained.

His main “backward feet” gimmick could easily be translated into Presence Concealment clone combinable with his other forest affinity Skill. I have no good ideas for his Noble Phantasms though.

Brazilian Berserker (Zumbi of Palmares): Zumbi was a founding member and king of the Palmares, the biggest quilombo in history. As you know, Brazil used African slaves until 1888 and every slavery system has it’s great share of escaped slaves. Here in Brazil, the escaped slaves built big self-sustaining hidden communities just for them and those were called quilombos. One quilombo, Palmares, stood out among all others, being speculated to be roughly the size of Portugal. Sure, Zumbi was not perfect in hiding a community this big and Palmares was eventually found and attacked by the government, but when it happened Zumbi proved himself to be a fierce warrior, brilliant tactician and willing to rebuild Palmares from its ashes as many times as necessary. Eventually the government realized they already wasted too much resources on the quilombo wars and offer to end this by freeing everyone in Palmares but Zumbi refuses, saying he would only accept the terms if every black person was freed. The conflict continued in a smaller scale for 17 years until Zumbi was killed and his salted head was brought to his state’s governor. Still, he is the most notorious black man in Brazilian history.

He was picked as a Berserker mostly for his story was similar to Spartacus, so his stats and skillset should be similar as well, but probably stronger due to just how big Palmares was and more sane due to his status as a tactician. He would probably get a better Battle Continuation as well since his name is literally the Portuguese word for “zombie” and a Presence Concealment clone thanks to the hidden nature of the quilombos.

Brazilian Caster 1 (Antônio the Counselor): In times of crisis, people tend to find refuge in religion. The empoverished Northeastern wastelands had many known charasmatic and influential religious leaders that marked history, like for example Priest Cícero, the one Lantern devoted his life to. Another very powerful Catholic leader there was a pilgrim called Antônio the Counselor, who wandered the lands followed by 15000 people, received messianic treatment by his devotees and even managed to start and lead a large scale civil war against the government that neglected the Northeast (he lost and died).

As a Caster, he would use the usual Type-Moon priest magic, much like Amakusa. Being a known prophet, he would have Jeanne’s and Amakusa’s Revelation Skill and his Noble Phantasm would be based in his most famous prophecy “The wasteland will become sea and the sea will become wasteland”. This prophecy NP was actually the reason why I recommended him as a Caster on our roster.

Brazilian Caster 2 (Oswaldo Cruz): Oswaldo Cruz was a famous medical scientist known for studying tropical diseases and developing vaccines for most known epidemic of his time. However, back in 1904 people afraid of vaccines, believing some crazy dumb rumors it was some sort of dangerous biological weapon issued by the government or it could cause autism or some other nonsense. Through Oswaldo’s efforts, the government allowed sanitary agents to violently break out into people’s houses and vaccinate people by force. This caused a violent popular backlash called the Vaccine Revolt, where the common people fought against the sanitary agents and caused public chaos in order to end the mandatory vaccination. The social impact of rebellion and the erradication of smallpox and yellow fever caused people to realize vaccines were harmless and effective and completely ended the anti-vacc sentiment over the entire country as early as 1907.

Caster Oswaldo’s power set would be based less what he were, but more in how he was feared by the common people during his life, in a Innocent Monster-like fashion. His main attacks would be magic injections with varied effects and his Noble Phantasm would make them as unavoidable as Gae Bolg, based on the concept of forced vaccination.

Brazilian Assassin (Saci Pererê): See the link on Curupira’s part.

Like the Hassans, Saci is the ideal Assassin Servant because his name can be tied to very word Assassin (A"saci”n). Besides he is an elusive mythical creature who can appear and disappear in whilrwinds, so the Presence Concealment qualifier applies. His Noble Phantasm would be related to his magic hat and would called Luison as a follow-up to the “Asacin” joke, since Luison is the name of the Tupi mythology equivalent to the zabaniyyas.

Brazilian Rider (Santos Dumont): Sure, Dumont lived in France for most of his life and was there when he invented the airplane, but he was born in Brazil and lived here for 18 years, so we Brazilians love to somewhat inaccurately brag that the plane is a Brazilian invention and he is fully treated as a national hero here for it. 

As a Rider, his main Noble Phantasm would be the 14-Bis, with plane engine-like weapons being used as his primary weapon. He is also indirectly tied to the invention of the wristwatch, but I don’t know how to incorportate that as Skill for him. His research involved hot air balloons as well as airplanes, so I guess he could use those as make-shift bombs.

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Joyce Moreno - Feminina (produced arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman) - 12″ single for RSD, from the 1977 album Natureza - still unreleased but forthcoming from Far Out Music

This fabled 11 minute+ version of Brazilian icon Joyce's groundbreaking "Feminina" was recorded at Columbia Studios, New York in 1977, for the as yet unreleased Natureza album. Produced, arranged and conducted by the great Claus Ogerman (Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Billie Holiday... the list goes on), Natureza would have ostensibly been Joyce's big break to international stardom, but mysteriously, it was never released. With Joyce came fellow Brazilian icon Mauricio Maestro, while Nana Vasconcelos and Tutty Moreno were already living in New York, and Ogerman employed North American jazz legends Joe Farrell, Michael Brecker, Buster Williams, Mike Manieri and a full orchestra for the sessions. In anticipation of the monumental forthcoming Natureza album release via Far Out Recordings, this astonishing version of a true classic gets its first proper 12" vinyl release for Record Store Day 2022. In the spirit of making the release special for Record Store Day, rather than leave it as a single sided 12", Far Out boss called up Joyce to talk about the recording, recorded the conversation, and got it pressed onto the B-side. Joyce Moreno - lead vocals, lead guitar Mauricio Maestro - background guitar and backing vocals Buster Williams - acoustic bass João Palma - drums Naná Vasconcelos - percussion Tutty Moreno - percussion Mike Manieri - vibes Warren Bernhardt - keyboards Joe Farrell - flute solo Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque, George Marge, Don Hammond, Ray Beckstein - bass flutes

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This year, I’m doing this little Letterboxd Queer Film Challenge because I miss having a prescribed movie to watch each week and because I woke up with a hangover this morning and making pointless lists is always soothing. 

55 films (one a week + 3 bonus picks), 1932 - present, encompassing horror, bro comedies, underground experimental curiosities, staid biopics, music documentaries et alia. My choices are mostly unseen with a few old favourites peppered in. (s/o to Zā / @cherprayers for creating a fantastic set of weekly themes) 

I loved making this list so I thought I might as well post it here too:

Week 1. Queer Essentials (from either this or this list)

– Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015) (dir. Zac Farley & Dennis Cooper)

Week 2. Queer Essentials Part 2 (from either this or this list)

– The Long Day Closes (1992) (dir. Terence Davies)

Week 3. A film about intersex people or a film with an intersex character

– Orchids: My Intersex Adventure (2010) (dir. Phoebe Hart)

Week 4. A film about a fight or fighter for queer civil rights.

– How To Survive a Plague (2012) (dir. David France)

Week 5. A queer film starring a trans actor or actress.

– A Fantastic Woman (2017) (dir. Sebastián Lelio)

Week 6. A film by a trans filmmaker who is not a Wachowski sister

– Strong Island (2017) (dir. Yance Ford)

Week 7. A queer comedy

– Life Partners (2014) (dir. Susanna Fogel) 

Week 8. A film with a queer-coded villain

– Bride of Frankenstein (1935) (dir. James Whale)

Week 9. A film that uses the “bury your gays” trope

– The Children’s Hour (1961) (dir. William Wyler)

Week 10. A queer short film

– PYOTR495 (2016) (dir. Blake Mawson)

Week 11. A film about a polyamorous relationship.

– French Twist (1995) (dir. Josiane Balasko)

Week 12. A film that was nominated for the Queer Palm award

– Beyond the Hills (2012) (dir. Cristian Mungiu)

Week 13. A film starring someone you consider to be a queer icon

– The Scarlet Empress (1934) (dir. Josef von Sternberg)

Week 14. A documentary about a queer person

– Hockney (2014) (dir. Randall Wright)

Week 15. A film voted for BFI’s best LGBT film

– The Phantom (2000) (dir. João Pedro Rodrigues)

Week 16. A film starring an actress from Old Hollywood who was in closet or presumed to be

– Grand Hotel (1932) (dir. Edmund Goulding)

Week 17. A film featured in The Celluloid Closet.

– The Boys in the Band (1970) (dir. William Friedkin)

Week 18. A film post-1980 with queer subtext

– A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) (dir. Jack Sholder)

Week 19. An Asian Queer Film

– Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) (dir. Toshio Matsumoto)

Week 20. A queer biopic

– Tom of Finland (2017) (dir. Dome Karukoski)

Week 21. A film for which a queer person was nominated for an Academy Award

– Women in Love (1969) (dir. Ken Russell)

Week 22. A film directed by Gregg Araki

– The Living End (1992) (dir. Gregg Araki)

Week 23. A film starring a drag performer or prominently features drag performance

– Polyester (1981) (dir. John Waters)

Week 24. A gay interest film that was shown on Logo’s Cocktails and Classics

– Clue (1985) (dir. Jonathan Lynn)

Week 25. A film distributed by Strand Releasing

– Tropical Malady (2004) (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Week 26. A pre-Stonewall queer film.

– Un Chant d’Amour (1950) (dir. Jean Genet)

Week 27. A controversial queer film/a film controversial for its treatment of queer identity.

– 4th Man Out (2015)  (dir. Andrew Nackman)

Week 28. A Middle Eastern queer film

– The Bubble (2006) (dir. Eytan Fox)

Week 29. A film starring Ian McKellen

– Bent (1997) (dir. Sean Mathias)

Week 30. A film featured in The New Queer Cinema: The Directors Cut by B. Ruby Rich.

– Sebastiane (1997) (dir. Derek Jarman & Paul Humfress)

Week 31. A film featuring a transman/transmasculine person.

– 52 Tuesdays (2014)  (dir. Sophie Hyde)

Week 32. A film featuring young queer characters.

– Water Lilies (2007) (dir. Celine Sciamma)

Week 33. A film by a queer POC director.

– Spa Night (2016) (dir. Andrew Ahn)

Week 34. A film by a queer female director.

– Mosquita y Mari (2012) (dir. Aurora Guerrero)

Week 35. A Queercore film.

– Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band (2008) (dir. Michael Carmona)

Week 36. A queer film with a happy ending.

– Maurice (1987) (dir. James Ivory)

Week 37. A Teddy Award Winner.

– Silence = Death (1990) (dir. Rosa von Praunheim)

Week 38. An experimental queer film or a queer film with an unorthodox narrative to it.

– The Last of England (1987) (dir. Derek Jarman)

Week 39. A sapphic film.

– Go Fish (1994) (dir. Rose Troche)

Week 40. A film with bisexual characters.

– Teorema (1968) (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Week 41. A queer film focusing on a character who isn’t in the LGB acronym, but in one of the others. (asexual, pansexual, gender fluid, etc.)

– Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger (2013) (dir. Sam Feder)

Week 42. A movie with a romantic subplot involving a trans character.

– M. Butterfly (1993) (dir. David Cronenberg)

Week 43. A queer horror or science fiction film

– Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) (dir. Bruce LaBruce)

Week 44. A French queer film.

– The Blood of a Poet (1932) (dir. Jean Cocteau)

Week 45. A Latinx queer film

– Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) (dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea & Juan Carlos Tabío)

Week 46. A film about the AIDS crisis

– BPM (2017) (dir. Robin Campillo)

Week 47. A queer film starring a queer POC actor

– Bessie (2015) (dir. Dee Rees)

Week 48. A film directed by Cheryl Dunye

– Stranger Inside (2001) (dir. Cheryl Dunye)

Week 49. A film where a majority of the characters in the film are queer.

– Flaming Creatures (1963) (dir. Jack Smith)

Week 50. A film starring gay camp and sexually ambiguous (probably bi though) icon Joan Crawford

– Strait-Jacket (1964) (dir. William Castle)

Week 51. A film made by someone on this list whose work isn’t anywhere else on your challenge list.

– Tom at the Farm (2013) (dir. Xavier Dolan)

Week 52. Watch a queer friend’s favourite queer film

– Female Trouble (1974) (dir. John Waters)

BONUS: Week 53. A film used in the last challenge that doesn’t seem quite queer.

– Misery (1990) (dir. Rob Reiner)

BONUS: Week 54. A queer musical

– The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003) (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul & Michael Shaowanasai)

BONUS: Week 55. A film by a director that was showcased in the 2017 challenge (Xavier Dolan, James Whale, Pedro Almodovar, Jodie Foster, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Bruce LaBruce, the Wachowskis, Todd Haynes or George Cukor)

– Law of Desire (1987) (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)

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[TASK 143: TIMOR-LESTE]

In celebration of Asian American Heritage Month, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 110+ East Timorese faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Sandra Pires (1969) East Timorese / Portuguese, Austrian - singer.

Jen Shyu (1978) East Timorese / Taiwanese - singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, producer, and composer.

ChiChi (1995) East Timorese - model (instagram: chichi_95s).

Manuela Antonia / Manuela Antonia Astorga Da Costa (1996) East Timorese / Chilean - model.

Maria Vitoria (2001) East Timorese - singer and model.

Raine Montalvao (?) East Timorese, Portuguese - model.

Dalia Kiakilir (?) East Timorese - actress, singer, writer, and artist.

Irim Tolentino (?) East Timorese - actress and screenwriter.

Shirlene Lai Allison (?) East Timorese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, French, English - actress and model.

Bety Reis (?) East Timorese - actress and filmmaker.

Lili Ribeiro (?) East Timorese - singer.

Teresa Lee / Li Mulin (?) East Timorese, Chinese, Portuguese - tv host and model.

F - Athletes:

Aguida Amaral (1975) East Timorese - long-distance runner.

Mariana Diaz Ximenez (1983) East Timorese - long-distance runner.

Luisa Marques (1984) East Timorese - footballer.

Francelina Cabral (1985) East Timorese - cyclist.

Engracia Fernandes (1987) East Timorese - footballer.

Juventina Napoleão (1988) East Timorese - long-distance runner.

Bernardina Mousaco (1992) East Timorese - footballer.

Cindy Lay (1994) 3/4 East Timorese, 1/4 Chinese - footballer.

Nelia Martins (1998) East Timorese - middle-distance runner.

M:

Luís Cardoso (1958) East Timorese - writer.

Ego Lemos (1972) East Timorese - singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist.

Anuku Lorosae (1990) East Timorese - rapper.

Jose da Costa (?) East Timorese - actor and filmmaker.

Agusto Quintao (?) East Timorese - actor.

Jano Viegas (?) East Timorese - rapper.

Coco Jah (?) East Timorese - singer.

Teo Batiste Ximenes (?) East Timorese - singer.

Sico Mulohy (?) East Timorese - singer.

Tony Pereira (?) East Timorese - singer.

Jordan Monteiro (?) East Timorese, Cape Verdean, Portuguese - model (instagram: djordanmonteiro).

Felix Jd’s (?) East Timorese - model (instagram: felix_jds).

M - Athletes:

Victor Ramos (1970) East Timorese - boxer.

Eduardo Pereira (1972) East Timorese - footballer.

Martinho de Araújo (1973) East Timorese - weightlifter.

João Bosco Cabral (1975) East Timorese - footballer.

Miro Baldo Bento (1975) East Timorese - footballer.

Alfredo Esteves (1976) East Timorese - footballer.

Eric / Helder Mota Ricardo (1977) East Timorese - footballer.

Calisto da Costa (1979) East Timorese - long-distance runner.

Branco / Cipriano Branco (1980) East Timorese - footballer.

João Kik / José João Pereira (1981) East Timorese - footballer.

Gil da Cruz Trindade (1982) East Timorese - long-distance runner.

Emílio da Silva (1982) East Timorese - footballer.

Lino / Marcelino Da Costa Fernandes (1983) East Timorese - footballer.

Adriano Quintão (1984) East Timorese - footballer.

Migi / Miguel Soares (1984) East Timorese - footballer.

Luzinho / Zico Luzinho Ingles Casimiro (1985) East Timorese - footballer.

Entil / Vicente Ramos Freitas (1985) East Timorese - footballer.

Ze Martins / Zeferino Martins (1985) East Timorese - footballer.

Nando (1985) East Timorese - footballer.

Ebi / Eusebio de Almeida (1985) East Timorese - footballer.

Adi / Ady / Diamantino Leong (1986) East Timorese, Chinese - footballer.

Quito / Chiquito do Carmo (1986) East Timorese - footballer.

Salvador Carlos (1986) East Timorese - footballer.

Leonel / Leonel da Silva Araujo (1986) East Timorese - footballer.

Carlos Mateus Ximenes (1986) East Timorese - footballer.

Augusto Ramos Soares (1986) East Timorese - long-distance runner.

José Vide (1987) East Timorese - footballer.

De Jesus / Elijeu De Jesus Belo Soares (1987) East Timorese - footballer.

Idelfonso da Silva (1987) East Timorese - footballer.

Juvitu / Juvitu da Silva (1987) East Timorese - footballer.

Adélio Guterres / Adélio Maria Costa (1987) East Timorese - footballer.

Raul Isac / Raul Tyson Isac Dias Monteiro (1988) East Timorese - footballer.

Murilo de Almeida (1989) East Timorese - footballer.

Alan Leandro (1989) East Timorese - footballer.

Jesse Pinto (1990) East Timorese - footballer.

Wellington Rocha (1990) Brazilian [East Timorese, Possibly Other] - footballer.

Emerson Cesario (1990) East Timorese - footballer.

Antonio Marcos Sousa (1990) Brazilian [East Timorese, Possibly Other] - footballer.

Ricardo Sousa da Cruz Maia (1991) East Timorese - footballer.

Nazario / Nazario do Carmo (1992) East Timorese - footballer.

Lamberto Gama (1992) East Timorese - footballer.

Bertolomeu Verdial (1992) East Timorese - footballer.

Edit Romanos Cristovão Savio (1992) East Timorese - footballer.

Pedro Henrique / Pedro Henrique Oliveira (1992) Brazilian [East Timorese, Possibly Other] - footballer.

Juliao Monteiro (1993) East Timorese - footballer.

Lin Jong (1993) East Timorese / Chinese - footballer.

Anggisu Barbosa (1993) East Timorese - footballer.

Silveiro Garcia (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

Ramos Maxanches (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

Yohan Goutt Goncalves (1994) East Timorese, French, Estonian - alpine skier.

Nilo Soares (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

José Fonseca / José Carlos da Fonseca (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

Boavida Olegario (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

Ricky / Nidio Ricardo Ferreira Alves (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

Jeca / Raimundo Sarmento (1994) East Timorese - footballer.

Nelson Sing (1995) East Timorese, Chinese - footballer.

Cácio de Souza Costa (1995) East Timorese - footballer.

Nataniel Reis / Nataniel de Jesus Reis (1995) East Timorese - footballer.

Filipe / Filipe Oliveira (1995) East Timorese - footballer.

Ady / Adelino Trindade (1995) East Timorese - footballer.

Nidio Neto / Nidio das Dores Neto (1995) East Timorese - footballer.

Ezequiel / Ezequiel Fernandes / Ezequiel Fernandes dos Santos (1996) East Timorese - footballer.

Frangcyatma Alves (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Aderito Raul Fernandes (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Domingos Ramos Freitas (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Jorge Sabas Victor (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Armando Varela (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Henrique Cruz / Henrique Wilsons Da Cruz Martins (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Fagio Augusto (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

José Oliveira (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Agostinho / Agostinho da Silva Araujo (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

Carlos Magno (1997) East Timorese - footballer.

José Guterres (1998) East Timorese - footballer.

Rufino Gama (1998) East Timorese - footballer.

Julião / Julião Dos Reis Mendonça (1998) East Timorese - footballer.

Nelson Sarmento Viegas (1999) East Timorese - footballer.

Ervino / Ervino Soares (1999) East Timorese - footballer.

Abílio Vieira (1999) East Timorese - footballer.

João Pedro (2000) East Timorese - footballer.

João Panji (2000) East Timorese - footballer.

Pedro Correia De Almeida (?) East Timorese - footballer.

Manuel da Costa Soares (?) East Timorese - footballer.

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Studies of Devassos No Paraíso by João Silvério Trevisan - Part II

About the representation of queer people in the Brazilian modern mainstream media

I’m skipping a bit of the vast historic background in Devassos no Paraíso provides to focus on the chapters where Trevisan (2018) describes the appearance of queer personalities and other artists that broke with the heteronormativity from the 70s onwards. It is important to remember that during this period of time, Brazil was going through a military dictatorship that was going to last until 1985. In addition, in 1968 a series of laws named The Institutional Act Number 5 (AI-5) was put into action. The AI-5 determined that the president (non-democratically elected) could, without any jurisdictional review, shut down the Congress, discharge congressman, suspend the rights of any citizen for 10 years, suspend habeas-corpus, amongst others. This led to high persecution of anyone or anything considered to be “subversive”: countless arrests of artists and activists - some even exiled, reports of torture from government agents, and heavy censorship on media and entrainment.

Having this said, the chapters start by commenting on the emergence of young liberation movements, not necessarily associated with any political side, but dedicated to a self immersion. The first icon of this movement was the singer and composer Caetano Veloso. He constantly broke with heteronormative expectations of the time, wearing bras and lipstick on stage, kissing his band members and stating a clear identification with a feminine side. Even though Veloso never stated he was gay or bi, there were comments of his admiration of the same sex in some of his lyrics.

Another important mention was the theater group Dzi Croquettes. They were the ones to introduce the gender fuck movement: originated in San Francisco, it consisted of gay men who liked to wear feminine symbols but mixed it with strong masculine traits like beards and hairy chests. The group performed dances and told provocative jokes on stage, they were a fundamental piece in breaking the heteronormativity in the LGBTQ+ community.

Above: (1) two members of Dzi Croquettes performing on stage 

Following the tendency of playing with gender symbols was Ney Matogrosso. He had great success amongst different age and social groups, representing a figure of mystery. Contrasting glitter, makeup, skirts, feathers, and a hairy chest, Ney was a phenomenon as the lead singer of Secos & Molhados and, later on, in his solo career. He suffered plenty of verbal and nonverbal aggression, even being kicked out of the stage at one point (Pereira, 1982), but nevertheless always was a clearly stated homosexual. The singer said once in an interview (1978) that his mission was to “end the tale that [being] homosexual was something sad, suffered, that you need to hide”. Mostly, Ney Matogrosso represented artistic freedom to break with gender stereotypes and symbols; apart from his clothes, he constantly mocked masculinity in his lyrics and performance. To Brazilian society he posed as a mythical figure, provoking shock and curiosity in the audience, which always kept them interested.

Above: (2) Ney in his stage costume (Maia, circa 1970)

Moving over to television entertainment - another very important sector of Brazilian pop culture - it is also possible to start seeing representations of LGBTQ+ subjects, even though television channels also suffered heavily from censorship. One of the first personalities to do so was the Talent show host Chacrinha, who often dressed up as a woman and inserted sexual innuendos in every bit of the show during its exhibition in the 80s. From that onwards, there were more and more queer personalities in soap operas and TV shows.  And the reason for that was simple: the polemic topic helped in the audience numbers - and therefore, profit. Actors that interpreted gay characters became nation-wide famous, all for performing very palatable version of real LGBTQ+ people, to please the public’s voyeuristic desires. The author suggests that this hygienization is mandatory for the continuous exotification of the public towards these ’strange loves’ that stayed in Brazilian’s imaginary.

Above: (3) The couple Niko (right, Thiago Fragoso) and Félix (left, Matheus Solano) in the prime time soap opera Amor À Vida.

In the same logic, LGBTQ+ characters also became the center of the joke. Many popular TV comedy shows had one or another sketch with their male actors cross-dressing or representing a very emasculated gay character. One persona in particular to highlight was Capitão Gay (Captain Gay), a Super-Man parody covered feathers who solved problems “no man or woman could solve” (Capitão Gay, 1981) with the help of a very dubious magic wand. The gay superhero was attacked both by the moralist, who thought this would promote homosexuality and by the LGBTQ+ community, which accused the character of perpetuating stereotypes. More recently, there was Ferdinando Show, an interview show featuring Ferdinando, a comic character who used the art of drag, musical performances and loads of gay slang in his talk show.

Above: (4) Capitão Gay (right) and his helper Carlos Suely (left) in their famous costumes. / Below: (5) Ferdinando, interpreted by actor Marcus Majella. 

The trans community also had its representation on the TV screens. Rogéria was the first to appear, as a guest in Chacrinha’s Talent show. Her fame led her to receive the title of “the transvestite of the Brazilian family”. Nany People, another trans comedian, and actress followed the legacy of Rogéria and has been featured in plays and soap operas. Another celebrity to mention is Roberta Close. She started out as the ad girl for a closets campaign and later on she sold out 200k copies of a Playboy magazine (Kfouri, 1984). Close had the looks of the beauty standards for a woman at the time and, therefore, was an easy target for the objectification and projection of male desires. Nevertheless, Roberta got famous to the point of receiving backlash from both sides: the conservatives were outraged by the idea of having a trans woman as a national sex-symbol, while feminist groups saw on Close a clear representation of sexist male desire.

Above: (6) Roberta Close in the beginning of her career.  

Back to the chronological order, in the 1990s the world suffered from the AIDs crisis and Brazil had its martyrs from popular music who carried out this cross. Cazuza and Renato Russo were famous names in the music industry, adored by the public (mainly the youth) as rock stars and came out as gay during the 80s. They were far from the stereotypical gay man propagated by the media, which allowed them to merge their romantic/sexual life as part of their regular public and creative career. Cazuza and Russo were HIV positive and made public through lyrics their experiences with the disease and sexuality, contrary to what older generations icons -  such as Matogrosso (1992) and Veloso (Fraga, 1993) - did at the time, separating themselves to any comparison to the LGBTQ+ community.

Through this quick flashback, we can glance at the permissiveness of the queer representation in Brazilian mainstream culture. This phenomenon is dependent of a few factors: it is either a “polished” version that is in accordance with heteronormative standards, such as the looks of Roberta Close or the lack of similarities between Cazuza and the advertised gay man; or it represents something exaggerated and different enough to either spark exotification - like Ney Matogrosso’s performance - or to be the pun of the joke - as did Capitão Gay. This so-called ‘acceptance’ is according to the malleability of society to identify similarities that don’t offend the heteronormative system or differences so evident that make those individuals to be treated as something mysterious and possibly beyond-human. Nevertheless, it is important to recognize the path that these personalities built to contribute to the integration of the LGBTQ+ community outside of the margins and into pop culture.

References

Capitão Gay (1981) Viva O Gordo. Rede Globo, 9 March.

D'Araujo, M.C. (Unknown) Fatos e Imagens: artigos ilustrados de fatos e conjunturas do Brasil. Available at: https://cpdoc.fgv.br/producao/dossies/FatosImagens/AI5 (Accessed: 7 January 2020).

Fraga, P. (1993) ‘Caetano ataca New York Times no programa do Jô’, Folha de S.Paulo, 30 September.

Kfouri, J. (ed.) (1984) ‘Lídia Bizzocchi (especial: Roberta Close)’, Playboy, March.

Matogrosso, N. (1978) ‘Ney Matogrosso fala sem make up’. Interview with Ney Matogrosso. Interviewed by Vânia Toledo and Nelson Motta for Interview (n.5), May, p. 4-7.

Pereira, E. (1982) ‘Ney, em liberdade moral’, Journal da Tarde, 13 November, p.7.

Vaz, D. P. (1992) Ney Matogrosso: Um cara meio estranho. Rio de Janeiro: Rio Fundo Editora.

Figures list

1 - Para a caracterização, o figurino trazia brilho, meia arrastão e maquiagem pesada (2012) Available at: http://redeglobo.globo.com/globoteatro/bis/noticia/2013/09/relembre-momentos-marcantes-da-carreira-do-grupo-dzi-croquettes.html (Accessed: 7 January 2020).

2 - Maia, J. ( circa 1970) Ney Matogrosso, o showman brasileiro. Available at: https://imagesvisions.blogspot.com/2013/11/ney-matogrosso-o-icone-camaleao-do.html (Accessed: 7 January 2020).

3- Amor À Vida (2013) Rede Globo, 13 January, 21:00.

4- Viva O Gordo (1981) Rede Globo, 9 march.

5- Fernando Show (2015) Multishow, 10 August.

6- Fala cinco idiomas: o inglês, o francês, o alemão, o português e o italiano (2015). Available at: https://entretenimento.r7.com/famosos-e-tv/fotos/musa-dos-anos-80-roberta-close-aparece-com-o-rosto-irreconhecivel-em-rede-social-compare-06102019#!/foto/8 (Accessed: 7 January 2020).

[brazilwonders]

what are some of the most iconic works of brazilian literature?

Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis);Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis);Grande sertão veredas (Guimarães Rosa);Sentimento do mundo (Carlos Drummond de Andrade);A hora da estrela (Clarice Lispector);Morte e vida Severina (João Cabral de Melo Neto);Os sertões (Euclides da Cunha).