Linn da Quebrada

Linn da Quebrada (Double entendre in Portuguese, in English: Linn from the Hood or "Broken Beauty") is the stage name of Lina Pereira dos Santos, a Brazilian singer, actress, screenwriter, and television personality. Life Lina Pereira was born in 1990 and grew up in a religious family of Jehovah's Witnesses in São Paulo. Her mother was a domestic worker from Alagoas, and her father left the family when she was 7 years old. Under the stage name Linn da Quebrada, Pereira's music became known in Brazil after she released a funk song titled in May 2016. The lyrics of the song made fun of cisgender and heterosexual men. Its initial success took place on YouTube. After Angela Davis praised Pereira's music and asked her to join the boycott of Israel, Pereira agreed to do so, stating that "music is also a response to the present [...] what we are living, what we are building and what we want to build". She was involved in founding the Associação de Travestis de Santo André.