LURDEZ WAS BORN IN SÃO PAULO, MOTHER OF ONE SON, STARTED HER TASTE FOR RAP IN 1994, AND BY THE END OF THE 90S, SHE JOINED THE HIP HOP GROUP MAMELO SOUND SYSTEM, AS MAIN AND SECONDARY VOCALS.

 

SHE STARTED HER SOLO CAREER IN 2009. IN 2010 SHE RELEASED THE FIRST SINGLE, ANDEI, TO PROMOTE HER FIRST SOLO STUDIO RECORDING, THE EP LURDEZ DA LUZ (ALBUM). THIS TRACK ALSO FEATURED A MUSIC VIDEO, WHICH WAS NOMINATED FOR THE VIDEO MUSIC BRASIL 2011 AS THE „BEST MUSIC VIDEO“. LURDEZ, STILL IN 2008, RECORDED A COLLABORATION WITH THE GROUP 3 NA MASSA, ON THE TRACK „SEM FÔLEGO“, FOR THEIR FIRST STUDIO ALBUM.

 

LUZ HAS COLLABORATED WITH RAPPERS AND SINGERS SUCH AS RODRIGO BRANDÃO, JORGE DU PEIXE, MC STEFANIE, ROB MAZUREK, CHICAGO UNDERGROUND AND EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, GUILHERME GRANADO DO HURTMOLD, BODES & ELEFANTES AND THE MUSIC PRODUCERS DJ MAKO, DJ PG AND RUMP. LURDEZ HAS ALREADY MADE NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS BLACK ALIEN, NANÁ VASCONCELOS, DJ MARKY, NAÇÃO ZUMBI, J.T. MEIRELLES, MUNDO LIVRE S/A, THAÍDE & DJ HUM, AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, WAX POETIC, DJ J.PERIOD DO ZION I AND RAHZEL, THE BEATBOXER OF THE GROUP THE ROOTS.