Marlui Miranda
{{Short description|Brazilian ethnomusicologist}}
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| name = Marlui Miranda
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| alt = Marlui Miranda at the Brazilian Music Awards 2015
| caption = Marlui Miranda at the Brazilian Music Awards 2015
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1949}}
| birth_place = Fortaleza, Brazil
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| occupation = Songwriter, ethnomusicologist
| years_active = 1970s-present
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Marlui Miranda is a Brazilian singer, musician, and researcher known for her performances of indigenous music from the Amazon.{{cite book |last1=Coronel-Molina |first1=Serafín M. |last2=McCarty |first2=Teresa L. |title=Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-09235-1 |page=257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyERDAAAQBAJ |access-date=22 March 2020 |language=en}} She has collaborated with Brazilian musicians Gilberto Gil, Egberto Gismonti, Milton Nascimento, and Nana Vasconcelos.
Life
Miranda was born in Fortaleza in Northeast Brazil. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1971 and studied classical guitar with the musician Turíbio Santos.{{cite web |last1=Madden-Matos |first1=Alexis |title=Oslo World Cinema Foundation Event 2010 |url=http://www.filmfrasor.no/en/news/2010/09/owcfe.html |website=Film from the South |access-date=22 March 2020 |date=2 September 2010}} Miranda has conducted extensive research on Brazilian indigenous music, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986 that supported the creation of her early music.{{cite web |title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Marlui Miranda |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/marlui-miranda/ |access-date=22 March 2020}} In the 1990s, Miranda performed as a vocalist and guitarist with the Brazilian instrumental group Pau Brasil, whose album Babel was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.{{cite web |last1=Calado |first1=Carlos |title=Pau Brasil: Three decades of brazilian instrumental music |url=http://grupopaubrasil.com/en/history/ |website=Pau Brasil |access-date=22 March 2020}} The 1991 adventure film At Play in the Fields of the Lord, set in the Amazon River Basin, features Miranda's contributions to the soundtrack and language creation for the fictional Niaruna tribe.{{cite web |title=AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD (1991) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/58759 |website=AFI CATALOG OF FEATURE FILMS THE FIRST 100 YEARS 1893–1993 |access-date=22 March 2020}} Her 1995 album Ihu Todos Os Sons presented music from the Nambikwara, Yanomami and Jabuti peoples of Brazil arranged and performed by Miranda and featuring appearances by Gilberto Gil and Uakti.{{cite book |last1=McGowan |first1=Chris |last2=Pessanha |first2=Ricardo |title=The Brazilian sound : samba, bossa nova, and the popular music of Brazil |date=1998 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=1566395453 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7MFD-EoTR7MC}}{{cite web |last1=Woodard |first1=Josef |title=Marlui Miranda: IHU, Todos os Sons |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/marlui-miranda-ihu-todos-os-sons/ |website=JazzTimes |access-date=22 March 2020}}
In 1998-1998, Miranda taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology.{{cite web |title=Complete List of Tinker Visiting Professors, 1981–2018 |url=https://clas.uchicago.edu/sites/clas.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/CompleteList%20TVP_Aug2018.pdf |website=University of Chicago |access-date=22 March 2020}} In 2003, Miranda was a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and co-taught a class on indigenous music in Brazil.{{cite web |title=The Montgomery Fellows - Marlui Miranda|url=https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/marlui-miranda|access-date=9 November 2023}} Miranda was awarded the Brazilian Order of Cultural Merit in 2002.{{cite web |title=Marlui Miranda - The Montgomery Fellows |url=https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/marlui-miranda |website=The Montgomery Fellows Program |access-date=22 March 2020}}
Selected discography
- Olho D`Agua (Warner, 1979){{cite web |title=Anima - Marlui Miranda |url=http://www.animamusica.art.br/site/lang_en/pages/musicos/marlui.html |website=www.animamusica.art.br |access-date=22 March 2020}}
- Revivencia (Memoria, 1986)
- Rio Acima (Memoria, 1989)
- Paiter Merewa (Memória, 1987)
- IHU, Todos os Sons (Pau Brasil, 1995)
- Kewere: Rezar (Pau Brasil 1997)
- Ponte entre Povos (SESC-SP 2005)
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