Milena Torres
Composer, poet, lyrics maker and singer.
 

  She possess about one hundred compositions registered between lyrics and poetry. She initiates in the musical poems as a participate of a “Sarau” in homage to the 10 years Paulo Leminski’s death, by invitation of the poet and singer Makely Ka and of the poet Alice Ruiz, in 1998.
 As singer, she creates the Macumba musical tree project, in 2003. This musical meeting that detaches the African rhythm and its transformations.
  As composer and lyrics maker, her poetry “The sea to me” is musicada (O mar pra mim) in 2004 by Gustavo Negreiros, singer of Sonorous Black band.
  As poet, in 2005, she participates of a literary competition of the Municipal City hall of Belo Horizonte. In 2003, she presents her first recital, called “Poetry on me, poetry for you, poetry for all”, in the CCBH, where she interprets poems of Manuel Bandeira, Paulo Leminski and Cecília Meireles.

 The care and the affection for the words became poetry in 2000, and the conducting wire was the love, or better, the its pain. Until then, she had put music in Manuel Bandeira and Paulo Leminski’s poems, having detached an enormous admiration for the poetry of Fernando Pessoa.
 Milena Fernandes Torres was born in Almenara, city of the Jequitinhonha river’s valley, verge with Bahia, detail that influences her culture and her attitude. In 1989 she makes her first lyrics and music, and since the beginning she has a trend to look for the expression through the word without shame.