TIELY

TIELY was born in April 1975. He is a multidisciplinary artist from East São Paulo. He is a member of the Hip Hop generation of the 90s. Tiely has worked/ is working on numerous music and audiovisual projects in which he works to bring visibility to the gender and sexuality debates within Hip Hop culture and the larger Brazilian society. Tiely is a poet, educator, actor, writer, and filmmaker who has worked as an art-educator for more than 20 years. Besides art and education, he is an avid lover of and competitor in sports. Within sports, he is primarily focused on soccer, rugby, and boxing. Tiely has published blogs, articles, essays and poetry. He has also published in academic collections. He is known as Brazil’s first nationally recognized hip hop artist who is a  transman.