Laíz likes to say "she carries many nations on her back." And what she means is that she has absorbed influences from around the globe which has helped her build a wide and all-encompassing worldview. However, she began her life boxed in a very restrictive relgious culture within Brazil. But then at an early age, she was given a choice to change that, and it exploded her worldview. Moving to Berlin as a teenager, she began meeting other immigrants, and started adding pieces of each of their cultures into her concept of "world." These experiences found an expression thru music and rap. Culture became her new word for "god." And when it came time to record her first album, the musicians that came calling, aka the New Love Experience, represented all four corners of the planet. Her mission is to spread what she has learned from others to us, that we should never stop learning, and never stop expanding our understanding of the world, ourselves, and others.

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