Raquel Trindade de Souza, a Kambinda (10 August 1936,

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– 15 April 2018,

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) was a Brazilian artist, activist, choreographer, Carnaval bloc organizer, folklorist, plastic artist, and writer. She was the daughter of poet and folklorist

Solano Trindade Solano Trindade (July 24, 1908— February 19, 1974) was a Brazilian poet, actor, folklorist, painter, stage director and activist. Trindade was active in the Brazilian Black Movement, having founded or co-founded several popular theater and ar ...

Biography

Trindade was the daughter of Solano Trindade and Maria Margarida Trindade, an occupational therapist. With her family, she moved to the city of Duque de Caxias in the 1940s. In the 1960s, she moved to

, where in 1975 she founded the Teatro Popular Solano Trindade (TPST). In Embu das Artes as well, she founded the Kambinda Maracatu Nação Carnaval group. As a painter, she had her first individual exhibition in 1966. In the same year, she had a work of hers acquired by art curator Pietro Maria Bardi and founded, along with Ranulfo Lira and Chico Rosa, the Artes da Praça da República movement in

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. She continued expanding the reach of her work in the following years. At the same time, she participated in a diverse range of events and debates about

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culture, which brought the opportunity for Trindade to create an extension course about folklore, Black theater and syncretic religions such as

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at the

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(Unicamp) in 1985. This university initiative was met with backlash by a large number of the faculty. While at Unicamp, she created the cultural organization Urucungos, Puítas e Quinjengues, the name coming from several

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musical instruments. She also lectured at the

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, and the

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. She taught at local schools in Embu das Artes about the culture and history of Black people in Brazil. Trindade married 8 times and had 3 children. Her grandson is rapper Zinho Trindade. In 2012, she was awarded the Commander class of the Order of Cultural Merit. Trindade died on 15 April 2018 in Embu das Artes due to complications from heart surgery.

Works

*''Embu: de Aldeia de M'Boy a Terra das Artes'' - Noovha América Editora, 2011Raquel Trindade lança livro
Prefeitura de Embu das Artes, 13 April 2011

References

External links

Raquel Trindade - Rainha Kambinda
- Artist's blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Trindade, Raquel 1936 births 2018 deaths People from Recife People from Embu das Artes People from Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro Afro-Brazilian women Brazilian people of indigenous peoples descent 20th-century Brazilian women artists 21st-century Brazilian women artists Brazilian folklorists Brazilian women folklorists Academic staff of the State University of Campinas Academic staff of the University of São Paulo Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) Deaths from complications of heart surgery