Monica Mussungo

Monica Mussungo (b. 1991, Luanda) is a Lisbon-raised singer, songwriter, and performance artist whose work drifts between sound, poetry, and embodied presence. With roots in fashion design from LCI Barcelona, her multidisciplinary language blooms across disciplines, drawing from the tactile and the ephemeral to shape immersive sonic worlds.

In 2023, Monica was honored with two awards alongside the collective A Song for You, appearing on their debut album Home. Her voice also echoes through the grooves of the XJAZZ compilation vinyl and the collaborative project Ocarulu. She has graced stages such as the CaixaForum Museum, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the XJAZZ Festival, sharing space with visionaries like Shabaka Hutchings and Roy Ayers.

In 2024, Monica brought a deeply personal performance to Berlin Art Week — a meditation on heritage, belonging, and the reclamation of space as a queer Black migrant body navigating Europe. The piece stood as both offering and resistance, interweaving vulnerability with defiance.

Her work is guided by the currents of Black queer feminist thought, the radical imaginings of the abolitionist movement, and the deep listening practices of sonic pioneers like Pauline Oliveros — anchoring each performance in a politics of presence, memory, and transformation.