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Historiography has debated brazilian music over the last few decades. A fruitful debate which at times escaped the academic walls and reached a broader audience. Oral History has aided this debate by showing narratives from actors which were part of brazilian music history, as is the case of the songstress Cynara. By sharing her memories and telling her artistic path, Cynara allows us to see points of the trajectory an artist which worked the last few decades producing art. Her testimony begins with her childhood, in Bahia, and goes up to more recent work. From her testimony we can see the way she her positioning as an artist, her sociability network during her journey and the path she followed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]