MECCA 🇧🇷
cultural practitioner | grammy winner |digable planets

I am Mariana Santos Vieira, and I am the Daughter of Amarina Ribeiro dos Santos Vieira.
My mother came from an extensive family from the State of Rio de Janeiro and was the youngest. Though she lost her mother as a child, she was deeply engaged in our lives. She always took the time to discover our feelings and celebrated our individuality.
A very sharp lady, energetic with a beautiful smile, she taught me how to be self-sufficient, and I wanted to be just like her. She often shared stories of growing up in Brasil and her dreams for our success and happiness in America.
Mother of the community, she would round all the kids up in the neighborhood with her own and drag us to various activities and events.
She always showed her dedication to the community, families in the area, and God.
I lost her when I was 22, and it changed me forever.You never get over the loss of her kind of love.
#DaughtersOf

They didn’t warn you. Nobody does.
That the strongest thing you will ever do in your life won’t look like strength. It will look like stillness. Like silence. Like standing in a hallway somewhere trying to remember how to breathe while the world keeps moving like nothing is burning.
But something was burning.
And you held it. With your bare hands.
At an age when you should have been making mistakes and wasting time…you were absorbing devastation at the molecular level.
Either grief has restructured your entire understanding of time, of love, of what actually matters,
or it hasn’t.
It restructured yours in the best way possible. That much I am certain of. ✨
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The Blowout Comb Transmissions
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Tate, Greg. Flyboy in the Buttermilk. Vols. 1 and 2. AUWA Books, 2025.
Thomas, James. From Tennessee Slave to St. Louis Entreprenuer: The Autobiography of James Thomas. Edited by Loren Schweninger. University of Missouri Press, 1984.
Thompson, Robert Farris. Face of the Gods. Prestel, 1993, Thompson, Robert Farris, Flash of the Spirit. Random House, 1983.
Titon, Jeff Todd. Early Downhome Blues. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
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