A choir of deaf people will interpret the liturgical music at the central events of World Youth Day. The “Mãos que Cantam” project has joined the WYD Lisbon 2023 Choir, promoting the integration of both hearing and non-listening people in a choir.

This weekend, 28th and 29th of January, another rehearsal for the WYD choir of Lisbon 2023 took place at the Rectory of the University of Lisbon. The great novelty of this rehearsal was the debut of the choir “Mãos que Cantam”, which will perform with the choir of listeners, interpreting in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) the liturgical songs that will animate the main ceremonies of WYD.Questioned about what music means to a deaf person, Débora Carmo, member of the “Mãos que Cantam” Choir, highlights that “music is universal” and that “society needs to remove this label that deaf people cannot be in music.”