The multimedia book Claudia Wonder brings together texts, chronicles, and stories published in the national media. The compilation presents the multifaceted and diverse look of the actress, singer, activist, columnist, and diva-trans-cult, revealing the sophisticated creative diversity unprecedented in the Brazilian transgender community.
Cláudia Wonder (1955-2010) was a Brazilian artist performer, writer, singer-songwriter, columnist, and transgender activist. As a teenager, she was already active in the transgender community where she met other legendary transgender icons, such as Andréa de Mayo, Thelma Lipp, Nana Vogel, Brenda Lee, Roberta Close, and Janaína Dutra. She also started acting, and in the 1980s she discovered her musical talent and debuted as a lyricist and vocalist of the rock band Jardins das Delícias, with the show "O Vomito do Mito", at the legendary São Paulo club Madame Satan.
Later she formed the band Truque Sujo.
At the end of the 80s, she moved to Europe and stayed there for eleven years, where she worked in shows and then as a businesswoman in the area of aesthetics, being a professional hairdresser and makeup artist. Back in Brazil, she resumed her artistic career. In June 2009, she starred in the documentary "Meu Amigo Claudia" by filmmaker Dácio Pinheiro, which presents her life and career.
Because of her gender identity, she was repeatedly arrested and sexually molested. As she revealed in an interview, she was compared to the most perverse marginals "simply because she is different from other people". This contributed to her great revolt and activism. One of her accomplishments was to have managed to do shows and appear on the cultural pages of newspapers and magazines even in the middle of the Military Dictatorship. Being one of the icons of the LGBT community, she was chosen as the opening of the 2001 São Paulo LGBT Pride Parade, as the godmother of the Mix Brasil Festival of Cinema and Video of Sexual Diversity, and was included in a list of the 24 LGBT personalities that in 2010.
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