Category Founding Members

GIANIRA FERRARA Born in Palermo, Italy, in 1983. She graduated in Musicology at the University of Palermo, with an ethnomusicological dissertation about the adufes, square drums played by women especially in the Beira-Baixa region in Portugal. Her ethnographic interest in… Continue Reading →

NINA BARATTI Born in Apulia, Southern Italy, in 1990. A lover of all the arts, she is particularly fascinated by music and its power to create, alter, and rebuild social bonds across time and space. Doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at… Continue Reading →

PASQUALE DILEO Born in Altamura, Italy, in 1982. Pasquale DiLeo graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Bari. Through his studies in Portuguese language, he has deepened his knowledge on the musical scenes of Lusophone countries. After… Continue Reading →

ROSA TOLLA Born in Potenza, Italy, in 1988. She first approached cultural anthropology during her undergraduate thesis in History at the University of Naples, Federico II, working on topics such as magic and the evil eye in Southern Italy. She… Continue Reading →

SARA MORAIS Born in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. At an early age, she moved to Minas Gerais and later settled in Brasília, the country’s capital, pursuing her academic studies at the University of Brasília (UnB). During her bachelor studies, she… Continue Reading →

MOISÉS RAFAEL Born in Ganda, Angola, in 1980. After philosophical-theological studies for priestly formation in Benguela, he went to Rome (Italy) in 2005 where he graduated in Choir Conducting and Composition in 2014. The desire to know more led him… Continue Reading →

BIBIANA FIGUEREIDO A Luso-Angolan born in Portugal in 1988. Since her childhood, dance has been part of her life so that she devoted her studies to this area. After specializing in dance at the Balleteatro Escola Profissional in Porto, she… Continue Reading →