Runuiná

Runuiná is a musician, composer, and young Yawanawá-Pupykary leader, son of Vesku Yawanawá and Antônio Apurinã, and a guardian of the ancestry of his people. He has dedicated himself from an early age to Indigenous musicality and has been a student of Pajé Maná for more than ten years, learning from him prayers, songs, and traditional healing arts. He composes his own songs by translating Pajé Maná’s traditional Saitis — originally performed exclusively with the voice — onto the guitar.