Singer, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist graduated from the State University of Paraná in Music. Gusta Proença has a career spanning more than 25 years in Afro-Brazilian music. He has played and recorded in several productions and groups such as Serenô Samba, Zeca Baleiro, Moraes Moreira and Bayaka World Music. He produced and recorded solo albums of samba and its aspects. A live DVD called ¨Minha Alegria ̈ where Gusta Proença confirms his strength in presenting his art to the world. Songs that tell stories of the sea, the forest, the city, love... Engaging songs that exalt ancestral energies from the perspective of the African matrix and its orixás that become a diaspora in Brazil. Samba, baião, ijexá, gafieira, xote are the rhythms that emerge in the dynamics of the show