Djilam Turé is an acclaimed singer, composer and dancer from Guinea-Bissau. She is said to have started as a dancer in the late 1990s with the National Ballet associated with the FARP. In 2003 she was one of the founding members of the Netos de Bandin project, which participated in the Kani Lai Festival in Gambia that same year. Still with Netos de Bandin she performed at the celebrations commemorating the independence of the Republic of Senegal the following year.

Djilam then founded the Harmonia de Luanda Group in 20212, with other colleagues, which achieved great success associated with the dissemination of Tina's music and the mandjuandades movement. Tina, also called a water drum, is a musical instrument consisting of drums cut in half and filled with water, on which a hemispherical gourd is placed and struck with the hands. An instrument often associated with city life, the tina is used at parties, weddings and recreational activities of mandjuandades (people of the same age) and the “weeping” ceremony of the elderly, held a week after the funeral. It is a resonance instrument with a hollow sound (“low buzzing”). It serves as a rhythmic basis for songs and dancers, almost always accompanied by clapping.

She has already performed in Portugal and other European countries such as France, Spain and Luxembourg, at the invitation of cultural promoters of the Guinean diaspora, at Tina's events and festivals, and it will be a privilege to welcome her to the opening party of Noites de Verão 2025.