The Alok Institute supports the construction of Ravê – Estúdio Kosmofônico Móvel MBYA – Guarani, a mobile music studio for the solo and continuous work of research, experimentation and music production of Owerá, a native rap expoent and member of the indigenous community Krukutu, located on the extreme south of São Paulo.
The project, that supports indigenous entrepreneurship through the equipments aquisition and technical coaching, aims at enabling musical experimentation inside and outside the village to foment Owerá’s process of music creation, involving the traditional Mbya – Guarani cosmophony and the non-indigenous musical universe. The ampliation of Owerá’s work will generate new resources income for the artist.
Fotos: Dia Art e Arquivo do Projeto
About Owerá
Owerá is a young indigenous artist of Guarani-Mbya etnicity, born in the Krukutu village in the indigenous land Tenondé Porã. He is a writer, rapper and singer of tradicional songs of his Guarani people. In 2007, at the age of six, Owerá did his first short film; in 2014 he participated in the Opening Cerimony for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, with an act of protest where he held a protest banner written “Demarcation Now” that made him famous worldwide. In 2015, he started rapping as Kunumi MC and later on chose to be called Owerá. He has done music features with Alok, Criolo and sang with Caetano Veloso.
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