Raquel Trindade | |
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 Trindade during an evening event at the Festival Latinidades 2014 | |
| Born | Raquel Trindade de Souza (1936-08-10)10 August 1936 |
| Died | 15 April 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 81) |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, folklorist, writer |
| Parent | Solano Trindade (father) |
Raquel Trindade de Souza, a Kambinda (10 August 1936,Recife – 15 April 2018,Embu das Artes) was a Brazilian artist, activist, choreographer, Carnaval bloc organizer, folklorist,plastic artist, and writer. She was the daughter of poet and folkloristSolano Trindade.[1]
Trindade was the daughter of Solano Trindade and Maria Margarida Trindade, an occupational therapist.[2] With her family, she moved to the city ofDuque de Caxias in the 1940s.[3][4] In the 1960s, she moved toEmbu das Artes, where in 1975 she founded the Teatro Popular Solano Trindade (TPST). In Embu das Artes as well, she founded the KambindaMaracatu Nação Carnaval group.[5]
As a painter, she had her first individual exhibition in 1966. In the same year, she had a work of hers acquired by art curatorPietro Maria Bardi and founded, along with Ranulfo Lira and Chico Rosa, the Artes da Praça da República movement inSão Paulo.
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 aboutAfro-Brazilian culture, which brought the opportunity for Trindade to create an extension course about folklore, Black theater and syncretic religions such ascandomblé at theState University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 1985.[5] This university initiative was met with backlash by a large number of the faculty.[2][6]
While at Unicamp, she created the cultural organization Urucungos, Puítas e Quinjengues, the name coming from severalBantu musical instruments.[6][7] She also lectured at theFederal University of São Carlos,Anhembi Morumbi University, and theUniversity of São Paulo. She taught at local schools in Embu das Artes about the culture and history of Black people in Brazil.[2]
Trindade married 8 times and had 3 children. Her grandson is rapper Zinho Trindade.[2][8]
In 2012, she was awarded the Commander class of theOrder of Cultural Merit.[9]
Trindade died on 15 April 2018 in Embu das Artes due to complications from heart surgery.[5]
