Music by Ana Tijoux
Ana Tijoux is this female mc who is the daughter of Chilean exiles. Most of her younger years were spent in Paris, but she moved back to Santiago and started rapping both in Spanish and French. What does it mean to suddenly be uprooted from the home you have always known? What does it mean to be an exile who returns? What does home mean and what does it evolve into? And when you are the child of an exile, who and what do you hold on to?
“Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air."
-Salman Rushdie
Ana Tijoux held on to music as expression, steeped in hip-hop and jazz. Hearing Ana's music, there's a steadiness and consistent strength to it all. Her lyrics seem to hold strongly to the conviction and belief that the world can be better. She has a number of albums: 1977, La Bala, and Vengo. She weaves in and out between socially conscious songs and songs more personal to her and her reflection is beautiful. The album, La Bala for example, speaks to the youth-led protests around economic and educational reform that happened in Chile in 2011.
A L.A. Times article featuring Ana spoke to just how unique she is, "But what sets Tijoux apart in the male-dominated hip-hop world is her lush sense of melody, her sensual, jazz-infused phrasing, and her penchant for introspective disclosure over bombastic self-promotion. Her albums brim with witty confessionals about her own personal and career struggles."
Introspective disclosure. With the whole world. As a female hip-hop artist. Love it.
I'm sharing two songs of Ana Tijoux's today. One dedicated to the recent protests in Chile: Sacar La Voz and one that is more personal, Volver.
“Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air."
-Salman Rushdie
Ana Tijoux held on to music as expression, steeped in hip-hop and jazz. Hearing Ana's music, there's a steadiness and consistent strength to it all. Her lyrics seem to hold strongly to the conviction and belief that the world can be better. She has a number of albums: 1977, La Bala, and Vengo. She weaves in and out between socially conscious songs and songs more personal to her and her reflection is beautiful. The album, La Bala for example, speaks to the youth-led protests around economic and educational reform that happened in Chile in 2011.
A L.A. Times article featuring Ana spoke to just how unique she is, "But what sets Tijoux apart in the male-dominated hip-hop world is her lush sense of melody, her sensual, jazz-infused phrasing, and her penchant for introspective disclosure over bombastic self-promotion. Her albums brim with witty confessionals about her own personal and career struggles."
Introspective disclosure. With the whole world. As a female hip-hop artist. Love it.
I'm sharing two songs of Ana Tijoux's today. One dedicated to the recent protests in Chile: Sacar La Voz and one that is more personal, Volver.
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