Linn da Quebrada

Linn da Quebrada (Double entendre in Portuguese, in English: Linn from the Hood or "Broken Beauty") is the stage name of Lina Pereira dos Santos, a Brazilian singer, actress, screenwriter, and television personality.

Life Lina Pereira was born in 1990 and grew up in a religious family of Jehovah's Witnesses in São Paulo. Her mother was a domestic worker from Alagoas, and her father left the family when she was 7 years old.

Under the stage name Linn da Quebrada, The lyrics of the song made fun of cisgender and heterosexual men. Its initial success took place on YouTube.

After Angela Davis praised Pereira's music and asked her to join the boycott of Israel, Pereira agreed to do so, stating that "music is also a response to the present [...] what we are living, what we are building and what we want to build".

In 2021, at age 30, Pereira got breast implants. She described them to Universo Online as a symbol of transformation, saying that she wanted people to look at her and recognize her as a travesti.

In 2022, Linn da Quebrada was a contestant on the 22nd season of the Brazilian reality show Big Brother Brasil, broadcast by TV Globo.

Music In 2017, Linn da Quebrada released an album titled Pajubá, which she described as "afro-funk-vogue".

, Quebrada was preparing to release a second album titled Trava Linguas.

Recognition In 2017, Linn da Quebrada was one of four trans people featured in the documentary ("My Body Is Political"), directed by Alice Riff.

A Portuguese language documentary titled , named after a track on an album by Linn da Quebrada, focused on her performance and identity. An English version was released in 2018 under the title Tranny Fag. Peter Bradshaw described Tranny Fag in The Guardian as "[an] interesting, limited study", characterizing Quebrada as "an almost inexhaustible self-dramatiser".

In June 2021, Quebrada was featured alongside Liniker on the cover of Vogue Brasil as a celebration of Pride Month. She appeared with Liniker in Amazon Prime Video's September Mornings (Manhãs de Setembro) later that same month.