Teresa Cristina

the "live queen" and the mistery of samba 2.0

Abstract

The present article is about the daily live transmissions by the singer and brazilian composer Teresa Cristina, from Rio de Janeiro. A black woman, over her 50’s and connected to the universe of samba as a genre, she was elected as the “live queen” during the quarentine period, putting us in touch with the new aspects related to the creation of the public space that emerged with the social media and leaving outlined characteristics about the artistic consecration. The live is also a strategy for the flow of artistic production in this historic moment of the pandemic caused by the Corona vírus.