Helena
Baúle

Awardee

Country

Mozambique

Helena Baúle promotes free expression through sound art.

Themes
Free Expression / Civil Society
Environment / Climate emergency
Disciplines
Music
Sound Art
Performance
Awards
SEED Award 2024
Supported by
Ing Yoe Tan

Profile

Helena Baúle is a singer, art educator, and cultural activist based in Maputo, Mozambique. She blends the traditional and indigenous with the contemporary through the use of organic, sustainable, and recyclable materials for sound production.

Helena is immersed in a constant process of research and cultural exchange, to collaborate with, explore, and display folklore from different cultures. In Brazil, where she lived for 7 years, she developed different ways of using the voice and the body as a musical instrument and artistic expression that made her the unique artist she is today. As an art educator, Helena has been facilitating activities and courses related to group singing, body music, and the repertoire of popular music from Mozambique.