Eliete Mejorado

Eliete Mejorado (born 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian performance artist, musician, filmmaker and video director, best known for her work as the vocalist and keyboard player of tropical punk duo Tetine which she formed with poet and musician Bruno Verner in São Paulo in 1995.

Eliete Mejorado started her career in the early 80’s as a performance artist, videomaker and actress in São Paulo working with Luis Otavio Burnier and late choreographer Johnatas Gama. In the 80's she produced a number of experimental video works and solo performances that often involved music, dance, screaming vocals, miming, moustaches, wigs, physical theatre and drag. Some of her early work was performed solo or in groups in venues such as Sesc Pompeia and at legendary São Paulo post punk underground club Madame Sata. From 1988-1992 Eliete Mejorado also studied Performing Arts at UNICAMP.

In 1994 Eliete Mejorado was rehearsing for a performance at Teatro Oficina when she met Bruno Verner for the first time. Eliete and Bruno soon found themselves creating a radical blend of atonalism, industrial, punk and noise improvising with a drum machine, an old piano and altered voices. These interludes would often happen during Roberto Zucco's rehearsal breaks. Both artists approach to performance, sound, voice, text and physicality were similar, resulting in the creation of a one-off art project that they later would baptize as Tetine.

In 1995 Tetine was officially born with the debut piece Alexandre’s Grave - a multi-media performance for voice, piano, electronics and projections shown at an old 70-seat auditorium called Teatro HAU at Bexiga in São Paulo.

Alexandre’s Grave marked the first of a series of works Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado would perform or exhibit as Tetine.

As a member of Tetine, Eliete Mejorado produced and released electronic music, post punk and funk carioca albums on a number of record labels such as Soul Jazz Records, Mr Bongo, Kute Bash, Bizarre Music, High School Records, Collete etc. She has also created and directed most of Tetine’s extensive videography. With Tetine she put out video compilations, curated exhibitions such as Tropical Punk, COMA, organised music and film programmes such as The Politics of Self Indulgence at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

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