The music speaks of the importance of turning to the village, doing the GREAT WAY and of embracing and singing the culture of the struggle of all peoples, to keep alive the ancestral flame.

The letter brings this message of strength, resistance and union of the peoples inside and outside the village. The indigenous musicality sung by the children of the earth does not lose its essence and originality.

Lyrics: Márcia Wayna Kambeba
Song: Márcia Wayna Kambeba
Percussion: Rafael Barros

Márcia Wayna Kambeba is a singer, songwriter, speaker and belongs to the Omágua Kambeba people. Born in a Tikuna village in Alto Solimões, the Master in Territory and Indigenous Identity is also a writer. Ay Kakyti Tama published — I live in the city and The place of knowledge, with poetry that portray the struggle and experience of women and indigenous peoples. Singer, songwriter, peoples’ experience photographer, speaker and teacher, Márcia translates indigenous issues to and in large cities into poetry, short stories, songs and articles.

At the ancestral sound of Djuena Tikuna’s singing, Tetchi’arü’ngu gets a new version in the hands of instrumentalist and DJ Eric Marky Terena.

Director: Priscila Tapajowara
Production: Gasparini Kaingang
Screenplay: Erisvan Guajajara
Local Production: Dany Guajajara
Camera: Honny Nickson – Media India

Duena Tikuna

Singer-songwriter of the Tikuna people who live in the border area between Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Born in Aldeia Umariaçu II, in the municipality of Tabatinga-AM, she is also a journalist and activist. The name Djuena means “the jaguar that jumps the river”. She was the first indigenous to star in a musical show, in the celebrations of the 121 years of the Teatro Amazonas de Manaus, in 2017, where she released her first album Tchautchiüãne. He also held the first Indigenous Music Show – WIYAE with indigenous artists from the Amazon. All his compositions are in the Tikuna language. Tikuna was one of the voices of ‘Sonora Brasil’, a project whose objective is to take the music of native peoples on tour throughout Brazil, enabling contact with the diversity of Brazilian music, encouraging new habits of musical appreciation and taking music out of major urban centers.

In 2016, Djuena sang the Brazilian National Anthem in Tikuna at the opening of the Olympics. After the release of her first album, Djuena performed a series of concerts in São Paulo, at the invitation of Magda Pucci, an indigenous singer and researcher. He performed in rooms such as Sesc Taubaté, Sesc May 24 and Studio Mawaca. In 2019, he participated in Brazil’s first indigenous music festival, the Yby Festival, in São Paulo, alongside other artists and cultural agents from the indigenous community. He was also in Europe, performing in France, Belgium, the Netherlands showing his art.

In 2018, she was the first artist from the Brazilian Amazon to be nominated for the Indigenous Music Awards of Canada, in the category of Best International Indigenous Artist, for the album Tchautchiüãne.

DJ Erik Marky Terena
Eric Marky Terena is a founding member of India Media and graduated in journalism from the Don Bosco Catholic University, located in Campo Grande, capital of his state (Mato Grosso do Sul). Through communication, he seeks to show the world the struggle of his people and other Brazilian indigenous peoples. He is a specialist in ethnomidies and currently develops a work on the production of electronic music and indigenous singers from various corners of Brazil.

Video with the Tupinambá do Tapajós group in Pará, who resist and protect the environmental, territorial and cultural heritage, with other different peoples in the region, with the main flag of struggle the demarcation of the territories, (today) located in the Tapajós Arapiuns Extractive Reserve, municipality of Santarém, western Pará.

The resistance against the colonization process to which they were submitted is evidenced in several ways, from the connection with nature, beliefs, customs and cosmopolitical action.

Audiovisual production by Eli Tupinambá, Elangela Tupinambá, Francicleide Tupinambá, Milena Raquel Tupinambá, Vitoria Tupinambá and Priscila Tupinambá.

“A praise to the immortals, the Uüne, the Mayra, the enchanted.” Thus, Djuena Tikuna defines her intimate musical performance, to the capella, during her visit to the Araribóia indigenous land, in the Amazon of Maranhão. For more than two years, the Amazon artist has been based in Maranhão and has been seeking the strength that the territories emanate, will strengthen her singing and friendship with her relatives Guajajara Tentehar.

The Cantos that cherish the Enchanted refer us to ancestral forces, under an eye engaged in the struggle to guarantee indigenous rights, for the visibility of their cultures in singing connection with the forest. The singing of this presentation, in honor of the relatives of Maranhão, was performed at the Tukan Tentehar Knowledge Center, located in the heart of Araribóia, and speak of the heritage of tradition, the forest that inhabits us, the territoriality and the feeling that makes indigenous peoples recognize themselves as relatives , children of the earth.

According to artist Tikuna, singing is an identity that connects the original peoples. “Our singing connects us. When we hear the sound of the Maracá, it is the spirits’ call to the great party that begins. It is the celebration of life, the resistance, our living ancestry in each of us.”

Technical Sheet:
The Chants that cherish the Enchanted — DJUENA TIKUNA
20 minutes/Color
Production Year: 2021
Direction and Images: Fitazuh Productions
Audio: Basarone Productions

Participants: Djuena Tikuna, Gean Ramos Pankararu and Márcia Kambeba

Mediation: Breeze Flow

The dialogues of traditional songs with copyright compositions in the lives of indigenous artists are the focus of this chat. The poetry mediated by the singing by Márcia Kambeba, the songs of the Tikuna tradition adapted to the stage by Djuena and singer Gean Ramos Pankararu’s songwriter Gean Ramos Pankararu point out different paths of indigenous songs in contemporary times.

Gean Ramos Pankararu

Singer, songwriter and guitarist considered a revelation of Northeastern music and the new generation of Brazilian popular music. From the Pernambuco backlands in Jatobá, his music crossed the boundaries of the Pankararu village, of the São Francisco Mesoregion, where he was born and raised. He has a 20-year career, with a guitar on his back and several copywriting compositions in his luggage.

Winner of two trophies at the Edésio Santos National Song Festival, which took place in the city of Juazeiro da Bahia in 2020. In 2018, he was the first indigenous artist from the Northeast to be nominated for Canada’s Indigenous Music Awards, in the category of Best International Indigenous Artist.

An artist consistent with a conscious and unchanging work, defending the concept of living and timeless music. At the age of eight he learned to give his first chords on the guitar. In 1998 he believed in his gift and went to Brasília. In 2001, to Florianópolis where he recorded his first EP with copyright songs. He then went to Rio de Janeiro and returned to the northeast, and between 2004 and 2007 he recorded his first CD ‘For a Second, ‘and began to disseminate this work on board an international transatlantic. In 2008, he released his CD in São Paulo, having the songs “Son of Pankararu” and “Pankararu Postcard” on the track of the documentary “From São Francisco to Pinheiros” developed by USP (University of São Paulo). He performed on “Explorer South Africa” and released his songs on radio and television shows across the country. Between 2010 and 2011, he participated in festivals in the northeast and the closing of the Second National Conference on Culture in Brasília. In 2013 he released the album ‘Trajectoria’ where he makes a record of his work on a live DVD recorded.

In 2013, his song “Joanas, Marias, Terezas” (Saia Florida) is selected for São Paulo ExpoSamba and won two awards. Gean Ramos emerges in the musical scene with the potential and a worthy work. Following in the footsteps of those who influenced him to walk along the path that makes history.

Flow Breeze

Brisa de la Cordillera, of the Mapuche people and also Minas Gerais, her family came from Chile to Brazil fleeing the Chilean dictatorship. She is a singer, musician, songwriter, poet, performer and music producer. Daughter of a couple of Chilean artists, she began her artistic process in Belo Horizonte and mixes the Latin Levada with rap, electronic and neo/soul. His first album was released in 2016, entitled “Newen”, which means “strength” in the Mapudungu language (literally the speech of the earth), and was among the 20 best releases of that year selected by the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo. He was a “bet” artist at Folha de São Paulo in 2017. The second work “Wild Like the Wind” released in December 2018, was among several lists and competed for the RedBull website among the best 50 albums of the year. He received the Olga Inspiring Women Award.