TETO PRETO is the Brazilian electronic music band with performative and audiovisual dimensions that has established itself as one of the greatest exponents of MAMBA NEGRA and the independent underGRANDE scene led by women and LGBTQIAP+ individuals not only from São Paulo but also well beyond Brazil.
Created and led by Laura Diaz (CARNEOSSO) in 2014, the band’s trajectory brings together artists and sounds from different parts of the country. The musical front is currently formed by the musician from Recife, Matheus Câmara (Entropia) and the multi-instrumentalist Mariano Sarine (Deaf Kids). On the performance front, the band welcomes dancers from the scene in a choreographic spectacle that also proposes intersections with the language of the entertainment industry.
Each performance by TETO PRETO leaves a mark wherever it goes, it’s an unforgettable and surprising phenomenon of a band that constantly renews itself. The same multiplicity of genres that allows it to flow unimpeded through the reality of the various stages it occupies manifests itself in a freedom of formats that allows it to materialize in many other artistic and audiovisual contexts.
With an almost entirely original repertoire in Portuguese, the band has proven that language is not a barrier, expanding its powers and traveling the world, passing through places ranging from the Azores (Tremor) and Lisbon (MusicBox), through Montréal (Pop MTL), Barcelona (Primavera Sound), Berlin (CTM), Brussels (Nuits Sonores), Buenos Aires (Technomoon), Mexico City (Bahidorá), Krakow (Unsound), Copenhagen (ALICE and Roskilde), Dour (Dour Festival), Lille (Aeronef), Lyon (Nuits Sonores), Milan (Terraforma), Nantes (Wine Nat White Heat), Paris (Lafayette Anticipation and Macki), Saint Brieuc (Artrock), and Saint Nazaire (Les Scales), Tilburg (Draaimolen), reaching as far as Hobart (Dark Mofo) in Tasmania (!).
