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I’ll go ahead and put on a little fashion show.
Woops. Look, friend.
How does being a woman
influence your music?
It influences it a lot.
Femininity is a quality.
The intuition...
And knowing how to conciliate a lot of things at the same time.
I’m the mother of two. I became a mother at 16.
And from early on, I’ve had this responsibility thing, of having to struggle.
And I think I bring all of this to my music.
And if you were a man, how would your music be?
Wow.
If I were a man I would want to be somewhat gay.
To make things roll.
But you are a mother too, right?
I think it is the same battle, the same rat race.
Yes, and I even play around with a version of Single Ladies, "I am single today."
I play around: "I am a single mom, I am a single mom."
It is the power of a true warrior.
It is something you must have.
Because if you don’t, things will sink.
So you have to go, to go after things.
You have to come from the North to São Paulo to show your work,
since you are from the Northeast too.
You are more serious, you are more stubborn.
Maternity, I think, the apex of a women is maternity.
Yes.
And it wasn’t something I wanted or planned.
It was something that happened.
So, look sister, there it is. Work it out, go get it.
I stood up on the high heels and worked on it. I believe I’ve been doing well.
Even though my baby is very small, he is a year and three months old.
But just the power you must have
to leave a child of only a year and three months at home
to go to a different state to work, that makes you mature a lot.
And it makes you stronger.
Let me get us another.
Just the one in the back, just the one in the back.
What is the intent of your music: how much of it is a protest and how much is unpretentious?
My music is not biased. My music is very commercial.
But above all, it is to relax.
But it is revolutionary too.
Yes.
I think there is some revolution in “technobrega,” in “technomelody,”
it is a thing of the electronic music that is genuinely Brazilian.
There is a brunt with regard to the root music of Pará
and the new music, the new scene that has been forming?
Are you criticized for it?
When it came about, we were.
The scene has been around for ten years. My band is eight years old.
So, when the whole story started, it was very marginal.
"Oh, what *** music, what stupid music, what horrible music."
When I started, I thought: "Wow, this beat is great."
"I’ll take this and there are some great things I can do with it."
I started preparing versions because there is equipment there.
There are mega sound teams that make daily presentations
for five to ten thousand people.
So there are four main pieces of equipment.
So I thought to myself: "Man, I’m going to write a song
for each equipment and each one will play my music."
So, it will be a boom.
It was the Beatles of “technobrega.”
When my band, Tecno Show, came out, people used to say:
"Wow, I can’t stand this woman singing anymore."
I started developing my music from the vortex of influences I have.
And from this peculiar, rather acid humor.
I started sampling everything from Sly and the Family Stone
to a Bollywood soundtrack.
There was a strong influence of “technobrega” too,
you can see it in "Kai Fora".
You always discoed “technobrega,” didn’t you?
Yes, I always carried that flag, because there is no social class in music.
And good things do not expire, they are inherent to time.
There is a thing with “brega” that I think is so great that you say.
I’m sad because sometimes people, just follow trends.
It is like chewing gum: they chew it up and spit it out.
Do you know what I mean?
You were a MC before. Did you intend to become a singer?
No, and I don’t consider myself a singer yet.
I still consider myself a bad MC, I usually say.
A cheat!
Because I am much more heart than technique.
There are many very well prepared singers, with velvet voices,
but who are always using the same formula, purring.
Who don’t have a certain blood in their eyes, that hot blood, you know?
So, Gabi?
So, Catarina Dee Jah?
You are single in São Paulo, huh?
I am always single.
So, are you doing well?
Not very well.
Men need to get our message.
Let’s talk to them now.
So, let’s go.
If you think I am your table lamp, your little toy
You can believe it, listen to me I’m taking off
I want a man who makes me Happy, crazy
To love me forever And give me a lot of pleasure
You went and left me You hurt my heart
And now you want to come back But I don’t want you anymore
And if you bother me I’ll tell you to screw yourself
I’m going to look for another And take it up your
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
I want you to go And don’t look for me any more
Go get your things And then take it up your
I want you to go And don’t look for me any more
Go get your things And then take it up your
You went and left me You hurt my heart
And now you want to come back But I don’t want you anymore
And if you bother me I’ll tell you to screw yourself
I’m going to look for another And take it up your
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
Get out of here, go away I don’t want you anymore
No, no, no, no, no
Who are your heroes in music?
Look, Chico Science is a great hero, a dear friend.
The revolution he brought about
was that thing of having your feet stuck on the ground,
of being, but having a more open head.
When you spoke of a hero, I thought about him too.
So, you said it and I agree with you.
But who are yours?
I think these folks...
I mention the people of my land because I know how hard things are there.
Because you first have to break a barrier there
to then have to prove yourself to Brazil.
A lot is said: "Oh, Pará is a new cellar of Brazilian music."
And?
There is potential for that, but there is still a lot to go to reach Bahia.
You taught us so much.
This concept of changing the concept of piracy,
of using this in their favor.
And this spread throughout Brazil.
This is a market model we created.
Recife also has the carts that sell.
And this is no longer seen with a bias.
We get there, I write a song.
There we write three, four songs a day.
It is easy.
I made a point of delivering my EP to the DJs for them to disseminate it.
Then I go over there and hand it to the pirates, I hand it over to the street sellers.
Imagine how it was in the past, when it was only vinyl, labels.