Djuena Tikuna

Denizia Araújo Peres, professionally known as Djuena Tikuna (born 1984) is a Ticuna Brazilian singer, one of the most prominent figures in indigenous music in Brazil. In 2017 she became the first indigenous person to perform a musical show at the Amazon Theatre in Manaus, where she presented her album Tchautchiüãne. All her compositions are sung in the Ticuna language.

Career Djuena was born in 1984 in , Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil, the daughter of Nutchametüku and Totchimaüna. She moved with her family to Manaus, when she was only seven years old, and where her father, who was a fisherman, found work as a security guard. At school, Djuena had difficulty speaking and writing Portuguese because she only spoke Ticuna, and to learn she began writing poetry and composing music.

In 2006, Djuena formed the musical group Magüita with her brothers, which performed in downtown Manaus and helped boost her career as a singer receiving invitations to sing at universities and schools. In August 2017, she became the first indigenous woman to perform a musical show at the Amazon Theatre in Manaus, presenting her album Tchautchiüãne to an audience of more than 800 people.

In 2018, at the age of 33, she became the first indigenous woman to graduate in journalism from the .

Discography Tchautchiüãne (2017)