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The Path of Interconnectedness
The recognition that no self, body or living thing exists in isolation, and that healing, for a person or a planet, begins by remembering our belonging to the whole.
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Poranguí
Poranguí was born in São José dos Campos, Brazil, to a Brazilian mother and a Chicano father, and grew up between the cultures of Brazil, Mexico and the southwestern United States. He lives in Sedona, Arizona.
He performs alone, building each piece from scratch on stage with looping equipment — world percussion, guitar, voice, didgeridoo and pre-Columbian flutes layered one over another until a single player sounds like an ensemble. He calls the result world soul music: songs and rhythms drawn from many cultures rather than from any single one. His albums include Ayahuasca (2016), the live album Poranguí (2019) and Beauty Way (2023), and he has recorded with Liquid Bloom, Rising Appalachia, Desert Dwellers, Dirtwire and Ayla Nereo, and played TEDx, SXSW, Lightning in a Bottle, Bali Spirit Festival, Boom and OZORA.
Alongside the music he works as a therapeutic bodyworker, drawing on an academic background in neuroscience and training as a licensed massage therapist. He has been a Teaching Artist for the Arizona Commission on the Arts since 2008.
“My art is that of holding sacred space. Whether we are dealing with the space between notes or the space between breaths, the healing power of my work happens when I get out of the way.”Poranguí
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