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The singer and composer Manoel Tchembo is from Canguçu, a country town of RS - Brazil. He comes from a family of musicians that contributed for his musical awakening early in his life. At the age of 14, having studied classical guitar, and later popular guitar, he started devoting himself to music for good.
Inspired by lyrics and poetry, Tchembo begun composing restructuring his relationship with arts, and over time, built partnerships with over 20 poets and lyricists from the whole country, being compositions the most genuine form for him to express his own ideologies and beliefs.
The musical way of Tchembo was enriched by participating as singer and musician with bands (in festivals, proms, pubs), in which stands out Panacéia's Band, gateway for his artistic career, and participation as musician with the argentin Sergio Olivé's band.
The poetic and musical diversity is the main spot of Tchembo's original work, registered in 2006 in your first album "em tempo, sem tempo", funded by FUMPROARTE (Rouanet Law from Porto Alegre), which lead him to win the "Açoriano's Music Prize - Revelation of the year 2006", rendering him also the invitation from ULBRA TV to record a new live DVD.
In December 2007, Tchembo settled down in Limeira - SP and performed many partnerships with local composers, but mainly with his wife and musical partner, the philosopher Renata Zeenat. In July 2010, he won the first prize in the local "National Brazilian Popular Music's Festival", and second prize in the "National Brazilian Popular Music's Festival - Canta Limeira", and in the same year, invited by the city's Department of Culture, he integrated the jury of "FestAFRO".
In January 2011, with the cultural support of six companies from Limeira - SP, Tchembo debuted the "Caricato MPB" Project, with an intimate presentation format, where he innovated by singing your MPB references, showing images of the artists (pictures, videos and cartoons) with audiovisual resources, leading to the audience not only Arts, but cultural content.