Hi everyone! My name is Nono and I am a transfer junior here at Converse! I am from Brazil and I moved to the US for college as I lived in Iowa for the past two years, and then transferred to South Carolina for my last two years of school.
I've been playing volleyball ever since I was 8 years old. Volleyball is the reason why I moved to the US and I love how many opportunities, people, and achievements this sport has brought me, along with shaping the person I am today.
I love to spend time with my family and friends, my favorite thing to do with my family is to play cards, or watch movies and I love to hang out and do fun activities with my friends. Being from Brazil, the experiences I've had, the places I've been and the people I've met has brough me a lot of understandings about different cultures , which is why I'm looking forward for this class!
1. Music is so important to me, I switch up on different kinds of music depending on my mood, but one artists that no matter what mood I'm in I'm always listening to is SZA. I didn't start listening to her until I moved to the US in 2022, but she is my go-to artist, my #1 artist on Spotify, and I like her so much because I find most of her songs very relatable and her voice is so peaceful, as well as calm rhythms. I do listen to a bunch of different music genres, and artists everyday, some that come and go but SZA will do it everyday. She has recently dropped a new album called LANA, but the song I listen to it the most everyday is probably Drew Barrymore.
2. My dad only listens to two things: Samba and The Beatles. Samba is a Brazilian music genre that involves a combination of instruments such as surdo, cuíca (my favorite one), pandeiro, and cavaquinho. My dad has a group of friends that comes together and play samba on what we call "Batucada," which is when a group of people play samba together. So growing up I would always go to their Batucada (they had barbecue there) but I remember I used to hate it. Now that I'm older, I love listening to it, I love to watch them play it, and I love when my dad write me and my siblings songs for us. There are so many songs that I could name, but Conselho is a Brazilian classic that I remember listening to it music classes when I was little, and my dad and his friends love to play it.
3. When it comes to music, I try to keep an open mind about it, and I mostly do as I listen to a bunch of different genres, but one that I don't really connect to is Billie Ellish. I do like her famous songs, and I find it so calming and relaxing, but it's not something that sticks out for me a lot, I don't normally listen to it or have any of her songs on any of my playlists, but when I do listen to it I can enjoy it, it's just not something I would want to listen to. Again I listen to different kinds of songs depending on my mood, and she would be the kind of artist I'd listen to when I feel sad. I like listening to more faster songs and most of her songs are very slow, which is why I don't listen to her, but that also explains why my favorite song of her is Birds of a Feather, since it has a more faster beat.
