Graúna - João Pernambuco

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Project: La tierra está cansada
João Pernambuco (Brazilië, 1883 - 1947) - Graúna
Guitar - Alvaro Rovira Ruiz, Meike Aukes
Video - Felipe Pipi
Alvaro Rovira Ruiz has a musical background in the tango and Latin-American folklore. He studied in Buenos Aires and Rotterdam and is currently conductor and teacher of a Argentine folklore ensemble and at the Rotterdam conservatoire.
Meike grew up on a bio organic farm in the north of the Netherlands. After several music projects in the field of psychiatry (children and youth), she started her education in Brazilian music at the Codarts conservatoire, Rotterdam.
'Graúna' is a singing bird from the family Icteridae, that can be found in Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. This music call of the graúna is a Brazillian Choro (lament).