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Doctor in Music at Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, Lenine Santos has been a visiting professor at several Brazilian universities and at national and international music festivals. Born in Brasília-DF, he is considered one of the most important performers of Brazilian Song. He made his opera debut in the 1993 season of Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in the opera I Pagliacci, by Ruggero Leoncavallo, and since then he has sung, in addition to the traditional operatic repertoire, characters in contemporary opera premieres such as A Redenção Pelo Sonho, by Tim Rescala ( 1999 and 2009), 22, Antes e Depois, by Tim Rescala, Arrigo Barnabé and Guto Lacaz (2002), and Sarapalha, by Harry Crowl (2010). His repertoire includes oratorios, masses and cantatas by Bach, Bruckner, Mozart, Haydn, Charpentier, Ariel Ramirez, José Antônio de Almeida Prado and Carlos Alberto Pinto da Fonseca. His discography is entirely dedicated to the Brazilian repertoire, since his first album XX Compositores Brasileiros (1998), including the complete songs for tenor by Antônio Carlos Gomes in Minhas Pobres Canções (2006), and Canção (2007). In the albums Caipira (2005) and Mais Caipira (2010), he performs Brazilian regional music classics. In his postdoctoral research at UNICAMP / FAPESP, he recovered the work of the Rio de Janeiro composer Benjamin Silva Araújo.