Tati Quebra Barraco

Tatiana dos Santos Lourenço [birth name] (born 1980), better known by her stage name Tati Quebra Barraco, is the most charismatic of Brazil's female MCs, who's music consist mostly of funk/hip hop and Bilar funk genre. [http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/tati_quebra_barraco#Album] She is one of Baile Funk's most notorious MC's. Born in Rio de Janeiro in the favela of Rochina she completely exemplifies the Baile Funk style of hip hop that is ever prevalent in Brazil. [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tati_Quebra-Barraco] Tati is considered Brazil's first lady of hip hop. This is because Tati is the first woman to break the barrier of male-only funkers. She demonstrates the prejudices surrounding Baile Funk and working-class culture in Brazil: that many or all favelados are sexually-depraved drug-dealing maniacs in her lyrics. Through her lyrics filled with strong sexual meaning, breaks down prejudices, demands equality between men and women, and leads the public to frenzy. Tati is one of the rappers, who use a very politically minded idiom, and funkers, who have a rebellious attitude. Tati Quebra-Barraco(whose artistic name translates Tati Home-Wrecker)is a mother of three children and still lives in the Favela. In the few years she been the game, she had become one of the grnres topearners selling millons of CDs. [ [http://www.livelistingsmag.com/world_music.htm World Music listings ~ Live Listings Magazine: The real guide to what's happening in multicultural London and the UK ] ] [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/who-let-the-yobs-out.htm Who Let the Yobs Out? - Article - Stylus Magazine ] ] . Barraco has been known to epitomize the working-class, Baile-funk culture of sex-crazed, “drug-dealing maniacs” and many prominent rumors have been started about her, such as her being arrested for drug possession. Ultimately, Tati’s success has not been so much about her music, but her image on the Brazilian soap “America,” the exposure from such, and her brazen personality. Her style of Baile Funk, said to originate from the shanty towns (or favelos) of Brazil [http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/25942 THE FUNK PHENOMENA: Fact Magazine ] ] , is clearly reflected in her musical stylings and even her lyrics and name, which translates as “Tati destroy shanty town huts" . Her most famous song to date is “Elas Estao Descontroladas” [ [http://www.aleksandramir.info/projects/tokyo/tokyo.html Naming Tokyo ] ] .

Soaps in Brazil can command up to 90% of the viewing public on peak nights, and that’s no mean feat in a country of 183 million people, so the exposure to the Brazilian public that Tati has enjoyed is staggering, due to her role in "America.". The denizens of the Baile Funk scene can’t be too unhappy: the genre is back on the map at a national level unprecedented partly because of her. Perhaps Tati’s painfully honest lyric that has become her famous catchphrase “sou feia, mas tô na moda” is all too true. I’m ugly, but I’m trendy. This was also the title for a documentary about the night life of Brazil. The movie maps the Rio De Janeiro funk scene from the point of view of females, who are highly responsible for creating the “funk” atmosphere for dancehall events. [ [http://brtrends.blogspot.com/2005/12/brazilian-movie-im-ugly-but-trendy.html Brazilian Trends - Brazilian culture, news, music, movies, places to visit and more ] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495898/ Sou Feia Mas Tô na Moda (2005) ] ] She is taking this genre of music that has been for long localized in the favelas of Brazil world wide. Her official [http://www.tatiquebrabarraco.com.br/biografia.htm website] is available to the world, however it is in Portuguese.

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