Ana Tijoux: Chilean Rapper Debuts Her CD “1977”

New York (KPRENSA) – Although her start was in hip-hop, rapper Ana Tijoux from Chile has explored many musical frontiers thanks to her almost instinctive curiosity. Ana just released her second solo album which is called . The album contains 14 songs about her life, wandering with ease from topics such as friendship, death of a close friend, the gift of writing, bad luck and creative crisis, among others.
1977 is a return to her roots in rap classic, with more rapping and less singing. “I feel it is a simple CD and in the mainstream of rap. I knew that I wanted to make classic songs — what I consider classic, of course — that is, songs that I remember from the golden years of hip hop between 1992 and 2000” she says.
The CD has collaborations with Hordatoj, FOEX and Tee, three leading rappers from the Chilean record label Potoco Discoss. Also participating is the jazz saxophonist Augustine Moya, with whom Ana Tijoux worked in the group Aluzinati, the jazz and funk drummer Andres Celis, whom she knew from childhood. Solo Di Medina also sings in French with Ana. The CD also incudes a number of other partners: Bubaseta, Stailok, DJ Dacel, the Detroit MC Invincible, Quique Neira and rap-jazz group Cómo Asesinar a Felipes.
Growing up in France
Born in the French city of Lille. Her mother, a psychologist, and her father, a politician were Chilean exiles in France, and when their daughter was five they moved to Paris where the family lived in immigrant neighborhoods of the capital such as Belleville Saint Maurice.
And there she also found hip-hop. When she was 10 years, the work of her Mother as an educator allowed her to meet Paris street children, who listened and practiced rap. Ana Tijoux particularly identified with two seminal French rap groups: the group NTM from Paris and the group IAM from Marseille, who in songs like “Les bateaux d’Afrique” spoke of racial discrimination, immigration and other matters relevant to the daughter of exiles like her. It was between 1988 and 1989 that Ana Tijoux became involved in hip-hop, first as a dancer.
Returning to Chile
Arriving in Chile in 1993 after living in France because of the exile of her parents, she became widely known as a rapper and singer in the group Makiza that recorded three albums between 1998 and 2005. She has also spent time in groups Alüzinati and Pulentos, and has a long series of collaborations ranging from the funk band Los Tetas in 1997 to the rock group Tsunami in 2006, and also includes duets with the Uruguayan musician Luciano Supervielle and the Mexican singer Julieta Venegas on the song “Eres para mi” from the CD Limón y Sal.
There’s hip-hop on Ana Tijoux’s resume, but there are also acid jazz, pop, electronic music, rock and songs for children and TV: The singer has enriched her original profession as a rapper with various other influences.
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