Ana Tijoux Photo: Andrés Ibarra CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ana Tijoux is known as a political hip-hop artist, but she is also a direct descendent of the great Chilean poets and songwriters of the 20th century, Violeta Parra, Victor Jara, Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. Throughout her career her music has constantly evolved, from a more sample-based classic hip-hop style, to the incorporation of complicated string arrangements, to the introduction of various Latin American folk rhythms that go side-by-side with her spit-fire lyrics.
Ana Tijoux was born in France after her parents were exiled during the military dictatorship in their native Chile, in 1973. (The dictatorship was headed by a military junta presided by General Augusto Pinochet until 1990.)
Tijoux became a household name in Chile with her first band, the critically-acclaimed late 90's rap trio Makiza.
Since going solo her career has grown to a new level based on her fusion that captures where the street meets tradition - tough yet tender, political yet celebratory.
Produced and engineered by Graham Kennedy for RNZ Music
Music Details:
Title: 'Mi Verdad', 'Vengo', 'Shock', 'Sacar La Voz', 'Calavaritas', 'En Paro', 'Las Cosas Por Su Nombre', '1977', 'Creo en Ti', 'Antipatriacca', 'Somos Sur'
