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Linn da Quebrada

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Linn da Quebrada
Linn da Quebrada in 2022
Linn de Quebrada in 2022
Born1990 (age 33–34)
NationalityBrazilian
Other namesLina Pereira dos Santos
Occupation(s)Singer, actress, screenwriter, television personality

Linn da Quebrada (Double entendre in Portuguese, in English: Linn from the Hood or "Broken Beauty") is the stage name of Lina Pereira dos Santos, a Brazilian singer, actress, screenwriter,[1] and television personality.

Life

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Lina Pereira was born in 1990[2] and grew up in a religious family of Jehovah's Witnesses[3] in São Paulo.[4] Her mother was a domestic worker from Alagoas,[5] and her father left the family when she was 7 years old.[2]

Under the stage name Linn da Quebrada,[1] Pereira's music became known in Brazil after she released a funk song titled Enviadescer in May 2016.[6] The lyrics of the song made fun of cisgender and heterosexual men.[7] Its initial success took place on YouTube.[2]

After Angela Davis praised Pereira's music and asked her to join the boycott of Israel, Pereira agreed to do so, stating that "music is also a response to the present [...] what we are living, what we are building and what we want to build".[7][a][timeframe?] She was involved in founding the Associação de Travestis de Santo André.[8][timeframe?]

In 2021, at age 30, Pereira got breast implants. She described them to Universo Online as a symbol of transformation, saying that she wanted people to look at her and recognize her as a travesti.[1] In 2022, she said she has a fluid sexuality.[9]

Music

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In 2017, Linn da Quebrada released an album titled Pajubá, which she described as "afro-funk-vogue".[10]

As of May 17, 2021, Quebrada was preparing to release a second album titled Trava Linguas.[1]

TransMissão

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In June 2021, the third season of the talk show TransMissão began, cohosted by Linn da Quebrada and Jup do Bairro [pt] on Canal Brasil. The guest in the first episode was Judith Butler.[11]

Recognition

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In 2017, Linn da Quebrada was one of four trans people featured in the documentary Meu Corpo É Politico ("My Body Is Political"), directed by Alice Riff.[12]

A Portuguese language documentary titled Bixa Travesty, named after a track on an album by Linn da Quebrada, focused on her performance and identity. An English version was released in 2018 under the title Tranny Fag. Peter Bradshaw described Tranny Fag in The Guardian as "[an] interesting, limited study", characterizing Quebrada as "an almost inexhaustible self-dramatiser".[4] In the documentary, Quebrada describes herself as a "Molotov faggot".

In August 2018, Quebrada was featured in a film by Dazed, directed by Valter Carvalho. Mykki Blanco, then the magazine's guest editor, described her as "honest and assertive" and noted that she addressed issues including "race, sexuality, sex work and the politics of her transgender identity."[13]

In June 2021, Quebrada was featured alongside Liniker on the cover of Vogue Brasil as a celebration of Pride Month.[14] She appeared with Liniker in Amazon Prime Video's September Mornings (Manhãs de Setembro) later that same month.

Notes

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  1. ^ Original quote in Spanish: "la música es también una respuesta al presente, y nuestra producción musical es la respuesta a lo que estamos viviendo, a la que estamos construyendo y a lo que queremos construir"

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Gonzalez, Mariana (May 17, 2021). "Linn da Quebrada: 'O peito é um símbolo, mas não é ele que me faz travesti'" [Linn da Quebrada: 'The chest is a symbol, but it's not what makes me a travesti']. Universo Online (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c De Melo Rocha & Rezende 2021, p. 24.
  3. ^ Galvão, Carolina Abbott (August 12, 2020). "Brazil's black trans musicians: 'When we join forces, we're dangerous!'". The Guardian. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  4. ^ a b Bradshaw, Peter (June 14, 2018). "Tranny Fag review – cheeky melodrama in real-time portrait". The Guardian. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  5. ^ Pereira, Néli (September 12, 2016). "De testemunha de Jeová a voz do funk LGBT, MC Linn da Quebrada se diz 'terrorista de gênero'" [From Jehovah's Witness to the voice of LGBT funk, MC Linn da Quebrada calls herself a 'gender terrorist']. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  6. ^ Balsemão, Rafael (April 25, 2017). "Conheça Linn da Quebrada, multiartista travesti que se apresenta em noite feminista no Opinião" [Meet Linn da Quebrada, a transvestite multi-artist who will perform at a feminist night at the Opinião]. GZH Magazine (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  7. ^ a b Velasco, Carolina (June 15, 2018). "Linn da Quebrada, mirando la transexualidad sin filtros" [Linn da Quebrada, looking at transsexuality without filters]. El Salto (in Spanish). Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  8. ^ Caparica, Marcio (May 26, 2016). "MC Linn da Quebrada: "o ódio disfarçado de opinião é tão culpado quanto quem mata"". Lado Bi (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  9. ^ "Linn da Quebrada abre o jogo sobre sexualidade fluída". Terra (in Brazilian Portuguese). May 15, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
  10. ^ Donohue, Caitlin (October 9, 2017). "Linn Da Quebrada Says Her Visual Album Is Like a Trans 'Lemonade' for Brazil's Queer Femmes". Remezcla. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  11. ^ "Linn da Quebrada e Jup do Bairro voltam no TransMissão" [Linn da Quebrada and Jup do Bairro return at TransMissão]. Jornal Correio (in Brazilian Portuguese). June 7, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  12. ^ Oliveira, André de (December 4, 2017). "Em 'Meu Corpo é Político', a vida de quatro transgêneros é normal (mas não fácil)" [In 'My Body Is Political', the life of four transgender people is normal (but not easy)]. El País (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  13. ^ Gorton, Thomas (August 22, 2018). "Brazilian rapper Linn da Quebrada is a force of nature". Dazed. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  14. ^ "Vogue Brasil dedica su nueva edición a la comunidad LGBT" [Vogue Brasil dedicates its new edition to the LGBT community]. Todo Noticias (in Spanish). June 4, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2021.

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