The sixth edition of the WME Awards by Music 2! – the first award entirely dedicated to women in the musical universe – announces the list of presentations that will take place throughout the event. This year, the award will feature the musical participation of more than 20 iconic women in music, including Preta Gil, Luísa Sonza, Gaby Amarantos, Kaê Guajajara, Margareth Menezes and Marina Sena.
Margareth Menezes, one of the great honorees of this edition, will give a very special presentation alongside three black women from Bahia. Preta Gil, Josyara and Luedji Luna will join the singer for an unprecedented performance based on Margareth’s vast Afropop legacy.
With powerful tones, Gaby Amarantos, Larissa Luz and Ilú Obá De Min will give an exciting presentation to honor Elza Soares, who passed away in January of this year, leaving more than 60 years of career as a legacy.
The singer Gal Costa, who recently passed away, will also be honored through a reinterpretation of the presentation that took place in 2019, when she was the honored artist of the award. Assucena Assucena will sing “Baby”, Preta Gil will sing “Vá se Benzer” and Ana Cañas will sing “Vaca Profana”.
Luísa Sonza is also confirmed to take the stage at the event, in addition to Marina Sena, who won the Revelation award in the last edition and will sing along with Rachel Reis, one of this year’s nominees for the same category, representing very well the new popular music scene. Brazilian.
To close the presentations on the WME stage, Bixarte, who is a poet, actress, writer and rapper and has left her mark through her words loaded with her trans, black and northeastern identity, will sing alongside Kaê Guajajara, singer, songwriter, actress, author and indigenous activist. Together, they will make a special number, symbolizing all the plurality brought by the award over the last few years.
Claudia Assef, Monique Dardenne and Fátima Pissarra, creators of the WME Awards, tell:
“This edition of WME very well portrays the work we have been doing since the creation of the award in 2017, by bringing to the spotlight diverse women, from different niches of music, who represent the most varied musical styles present in our country.”
The sixth edition will take place on December 21 in São Paulo, marking the 100% face-to-face return of the event after two years of the pandemic, and will be broadcast live over the internet. The award, which consolidates itself as one of the biggest events in Brazilian music, will have 17 categories, for which 85 names were nominated, in addition to the brand new Manas For Reels, created by four hands by WME and Meta / Instagram.
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