Tiganá Santana

Brazilian composer, singer, instrumentalist, poet, music producer, curator, researcher, professor and translator, Tiganá Santana began his musical studies on the guitar at age 14 in his native city Salvador (BA). At the age of 16 he was already composing in different African and European languages. He created his own guitar, which he called the "violão-tambor" (drum-guitar), with its own tuning, texture and chordal arrangement. He graduated in Philosophy from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) - where he is a professor of the Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts - and got a PhD in Letters from the University of São Paulo (USP). He was the first composer to record as a composer and performer an album with songs in African languages in Brazil, and was elected by the English magazine Songlines as one of the ten main Brazilian musicians today. New single and album out 3rd May. 

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