Patricia Marx talks about teenage harassment and considers memoir

Owner of one of the most beautiful voices of MPB, Patricia Marx will release a new album in 2023, in partnership with award-winning singer-songwriter Wado. The first sample of this work, however, is now available to fans. “Trans Voices” was released last week and is on digital platforms.

Patrícia says that “Vozes Trans”, written by Wado with other composers, is a song of resistance to a society that marginalizes sexual orientations other than heterosexual ones. She made her sexual orientation public in 2020, on LGBTQIA+ Pride Day, when she introduced her wife, Renata Pedreira, to fans via social media. “The knuckles / The trans voices / The drugs we like /”, says an excerpt of the song.

The singer says that she is in love with the sound of the new work and appropriating this new universe that Wado brings to a more modern MPB. “I’m very happy with this work with Wado, I think it’s the most mature album I’ve recorded so far”, says the singer, excited about the musical project.

In addition to “Vozes Trans”, this new project will also have re-recordings of songs by great names in music, but with different arrangements. Interestingly, the album is the singers’ second long-distance collaboration, but they still don’t know each other in person.

Patricia says this isn’t a problem because the two constantly text each other and consider each other lifelong friends. “That’s the 21st century. There’s no displacement, it sends files over the internet and it works well. He produces, mixes and masters there [em Maceió] and back [para São Paulo].”

Parallel to the new album, the singer has been doing shows on the “Trem da Alegria Celebration” with musician Luciano Nassyn, her former colleague from the children’s group who became an icon of the 1980s. According to her, a beautiful project in which the two sing the best songs from the Trem da Alegria repertoire.

“For me it’s fun, it’s not even work. I go there, I have fun, I love Luciano’s company, we’re super friends, brother”, says she, who was part of the Trem da Alegria from 1984 to 1987, and left the group in adolescence to pursue a solo career.

But not everything back then was joy. The singer, who had already revealed that she was a victim of sexual harassment as a teenager, says that she still has not overcome the issue and lives with triggers. “‘Pintou um climate’ is something that reminds me of that wound, I remember things I went through”, she says in reference to the controversial phrase by President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

Patricia says she has a chest kept, chained with a padlock and thrown at the bottom of the sea with all the memories of harassment. “It’s a hatred I have for all the men who harassed me. I don’t want to access it and I don’t even know when I will,” she says. “I’m aware of when it was, who they were and I don’t want to name the horse”, she continues, who does not rule out releasing a biography and telling these stories.

Today, Patricia says she wants to be happy, living her moment with lightness next to her wife and making music. “That music [‘Vozes Trans’] represents a lot this lightness of having found my place as a human being in society. It was in the LGBTQAI+ community that I felt part of the world.”

Despite being apprehensive at first, the singer says she only received support when revealing her sexuality. “The biggest fear was talking to my mother and my son. But he said: ‘mother will be happy, who am I to judge you’. My son is very mature”, she recalls. “I believe I’m not different, I have a different sexual orientation.”

Supporter of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) in the presidential elections, the singer avoids getting into political discussions, but is not inhibited when taking a position. “The poorest strata need to have more opportunities. When I vote I have to think about my surroundings, other people, not just me.”