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Renata A. Cruz

Songwriting and oud teacher

🇨🇴 Bogotá, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
Bogotá Ensemble
2003 to 2021
English, Spanish

I play songwriting and oud. I started in 2003 with a secondhand instrument and a lot of stubbornness. I teach about 11 students a week. Some of them are better than me now, which is the whole point. I volunteer at the food bank on Saturdays. I never expected anything in return, but a kind word always makes my day.

Instruments or styles

Songwriting Oud

What gifts mean to Renata: Any gift will help me keep teaching kids who can't afford lessons.

Messages of thanks

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Komal K. MauryaFan🇮🇳
You played at our wedding in 2016 and it was perfect. Greetings from Hubballi.
Amal Manal MansourFriend🇪🇬
Your lessons got me through a very hard year. Greetings from Mansoura.
Anna F. NavarroFormer student🇬🇧
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble. Greetings from Edinburgh.
Keren Bat-El OhanaFormer student🇮🇱
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble. Greetings from Jerusalem.
Hiroshi Shinji InoueFan🇯🇵
You played at our wedding in 2009 and it was perfect. Greetings from Tokyo.
Samina Rabia KhanFormer student🇵🇰
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble. Greetings from Faisalabad.
Rubina Sharmin MahmudFormer student🇧🇩
you played at our wedding in 2023 and it was perfect. Greetings from Chattogram.
Mateus Murilo GonçalvesFan🇧🇷
Thank you for the music! Greetings from Recife.
Ines Amal FaroukFormer student🇫🇷
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble. Greetings from Paris.
Martijn KuiperFormer student🇳🇱
You played at our wedding in 2006 and it was perfect. Greetings from Amsterdam.
Paul Stéphane DeschampsFormer student🇫🇷
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble!
Dayo Michael QuadriFormer student🇳🇬
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble Greetings from Kaduna.
Talha Shoaib KhanFormer student🇵🇰
I still have the recording from that night at Bogotá Ensemble Greetings from Sukkur.