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Puro
The latest video from Travesti Biológica affirms the need for self-respect, self-care, and empowerment.
Mavi Veloso
Mavi Veloso is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist, currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Transdisciplinary by passion, she integrates her experience as a performer, visual artist, dancer, actress, singer, and music producer in powerful stage performances combining pop with different styles such as R&B, trap, hip hop, synthpop, dance pop and Brazilian rhythms such as tecnobrega, Brazilian funk and others.
Mavi is a chameleon and likes to do trannycrafts, confusing, questioning, delighting and enlightening our minds while we dance. She began her music experiences at a young age, starting with poetry. Over time, she composed first lyrics, taking music making as a parallel activity to her career as performance and visual artist. In the past years Mavi has been diving on her own musical creation, songwriting and producing her own tracks, resulting in Travesti Biológica, her debut album released in January 2022.
Mavi is a chameleon and likes to do trannycrafts, confusing, questioning, delighting and enlightening our minds while we dance. She began her music experiences at a young age, starting with poetry. Over time, she composed first lyrics, taking music making as a parallel activity to her career as performance and visual artist. In the past years Mavi has been diving on her own musical creation, songwriting and producing her own tracks, resulting in Travesti Biológica, her debut album released in January 2022.
Photo by Jean-Luc Woodman
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Everything U Want
Track 8 from Travesti Biológica features vocals from multidisciplinary artist Ivy Monteiro.
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enTR4V4
With enTR4V4, Mavi takes us on a voyeuristic tour of various bedrooms to an insistent four-on-the-(boudoir)-floor rhythm.
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Treasure in My Mouth
With spacey synths and a disco dance beat, “Treasure in My Mouth” is an intimate portrait of self-care and resistance.
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Names
The fifth video from the album Travesti Biológica celebrates the cultural turn when we claim terms that once were used to oppress.
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Biological Tranny
This propulsive anthem acts as the title track to Mavi Veloso’s album, and asserts Mavi’s identity as a woman…and a real bitch too.
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In D Meantime
Mavi awakens in an alien landscape in the third music video from her album Travesti Biológica.
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Postiços
Stark lighting and minimal drum lines define the second music video from Mavi Veloso’s Travesti Biológica album.
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2000 Something
Invoking her previous work, “i wanna make revolution”, Mavi Veloso’s premiere music video for Travesti Biológica is a moody camcorder montage of landscapes, bodies, and nocturnal shapes.
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queer tongue gloss
Mavi Veloso’s queer trans language is always in flux, twisting Brazilian Portuguese and English phrases into new contortions that coat the tongue in a queer kind of gloss. Listen as she performs an essay-poem (or something like that). Supplemented by a queer abécédaire.
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TravaLíngua: Voice, Performance, Transition and other Revolutions
TravaLíngua looks at vocal and performative practices, especially related to the femininization or masculinization of vocal change in people transitioning between genders or sexual identities.
