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Tiganá Santana is a composer, musician, poet, musical producer, artistic director, curator, researcher, teacher and translator. The multi-artist was the first Brazilian composer to present an album, as a composer, with songs in African languages. With a PhD
in Literature from USP, he presented his thesis “A cosmologia africana dos bantu-kongo por Bunseki Fu-Kiau: tradução negra, reflexões e diálogos a partir do Brasil” (The African cosmology of Bantu-Kongo by Bunseki Fu-Kiau: black translation, reflections and dialogues from Brazil), which was awarded the “Antônio Cândido Prize” for best thesis by ANPOLL (National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Literature and Linguistics).
His most recent productions include the work “Floresta de Infinitos” (2023), in partnership with the artist Ayrson Heráclito for the 35th São Paulo Biennial; the curatorship of the exhibition “Línguas Africanas que Fazem o Brasil” (African languages that makes Brazil” , at the Museu da Língua Portuguesa, in São Paulo and the release of the album “Caçada Noturna” (2024).