Diego Ferreira

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With a collection of punk band stickers masking his rebel reputation, Diego Ferreira carries a notebook that tells stories schools would rather silence. His lyrics pulse with the raw energy of someone who turns detention into his personal creative workshop, transforming every institutional boundary into raw material for his art.

Backstory

Three stolen minutes during lunch break, and Diego Ferreira was already halfway through rewiring the school's PA system, his fingers working with the precision of someone who'd learned electronics from dismantling every piece of sound equipment his grandmother could salvage from the radio repair shop she'd run for forty years. The static crackle when he first heard his own voice echo through those ancient speakers had been nothing compared to the electric shock of realizing he could hijack an entire building's attention with just a microphone and the angry poetry he'd been carving into desk surfaces since middle school. His expulsion letter still bore the coffee ring stains from the principal's mug, a souvenir from the morning they'd discovered his underground radio broadcasts had been reaching three neighboring schools, turning study halls into impromptu protest rallies. Now, clutching the battered toolkit his grandmother had pressed into his hands before the move, Diego carried her v

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