Ana Tijoux

Ana Tijoux (2009)

Anamaria Merino Tijoux (* 12. June 1977 in Lille , France ), better known by her stage name Ana Tijoux or Anita Tijoux ( French pronunciation: [ti'ʒu] ), is a French-Chilean rap - singer . She became known in Latin America as the MC of the hip-hop band Makiza in the late 1990s. In 2006 she conquered Latino-Pop with Eres para mí in cooperation with the Mexican Julieta Venegas . Tijoux is often praised for "exploring sensitive, non-violent issues". She was widely recognized with her second solo album in 1977 .

biography

Anamaría Merino Tijoux was born on June 12, 1977 in the French city of Lille as the daughter of the sociologist María Emilia Tijoux and Roberto Merino Jorquera. Her Chilean parents fled into exile in France before the military dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet . In 1982 the family moved to Paris. It wasn't until 1983 that she got to know Chile while visiting her grandparents' family.

In 1988 she got into hip-hop as a dancer . After the restoration of democracy in Chile, she returned to the country and finally settled there in 1993. Two years later they built with the help of a rapper group of community Macul , Santiago in the local scene and founded Zaturno her first band Los Gemelos . In 1997 her fame rose through the feature La Medicina with the group Los Tetas , their first professional studio recording.

Makiza

Makiza with Anita Tijoux (2005)

In 1997 she became part of the Chilean rap band Makiza , which debuted on the Chilean music scene that year. The following year the band released their first album, Vida salvaje, with great success . The album Aerolíneas Makiza followed in 1999 , which addresses taboo subjects such as life in exile, teenage parents and others.

In 2000 Makiza took part in the cover Somos tontos, no pesados of Los Tres , the band's last album together. In the same year Makiza's members split up to pursue individual projects. This is how Anita's collaboration with the band Santo Barrio in songs like La persecución and La bienvenida came about in 2001. In 2001 she traveled to France again. There she recorded her first solo song Santiago Penando Estás , which was released as part of the tribute album Después de vivir un siglo dedicated to Violeta Parra in France and Chile.

In 2003 she returned to Chile and took part in various music projects, for example the band Alüzinati. Together with the Mexican singer Julieta Venegas she recorded the piece Lo que tú me das for the soundtrack of the film adaptation of Sub terra by Baldomero Lillo .

She returned to Makiza in 2004 and remastered her first album Vida Salvaje . The third and final disc Casino Royale was released in 2005. She also gave the singer Mea her voice as a voice actress in the animation series Pulentos on the Chilean broadcaster Canal 13 . After personal differences, she definitely left Makiza behind in 2006 and started her solo career.

Solo career

Tijoux 2013.

In November 2006 her first single Ya no fue was finished and she made her first live appearance. Due to problems with the La Oreja label responsible for the release , produced by Erasmo Parra and Camilo Salinas , the solo work was not brought onto the market. In the same year she worked again with Julieta Venegas with whom she recorded the song Eres para mí , part of the album Limón y sal .

Her first solo album Kaos with the guitarist Cristóbal Pérez ( Pera Prezz ) and produced by Nicolas Carrasco ( Foex ) was released in 2007 on the Oveja Negra label , including the first single Despabílate! . On the album she mixes funk, soul and other black rhythms, composes sad, happy, dynamic and melodic songs at will and shows a wide range of emotions with zeal.

In June 2009 she started her first tour to Mexico where she appeared on the 28th of this month at the Festival Vive Latino and also made several appearances in Mexico City .

With the piece 1977 from 2009 Ana Tijoux demonstrates her skills with demanding rhythms and text and moves the audience with a jazzy voice. The album, named after the year she was born, paints a picture of her childhood in France and pays tribute to the Chilean hip-hop that inspired her in the early 1990s. In the same year, Thom Yorke , singer from Radiohead , recommended his followers to listen to the song in 1977, increasing Tijoux's popularity in Europe. In addition, the piece set to music a scene from the fifth chapter of the fourth season of the popular series Breaking Bad and the computer game FIFA 2011. This is followed by tours through the USA and the nomination for a Grammy . MTV Iggy praised her in 2011 as one of the 12 best MCs worldwide with her at the top and highlighted the disc in 1977 . With La bala , published in 2011 by Oveja Negra, Anita Tijoux explores the limits of her style, which reorganizes hip-hop references and conveys an energetic spirit. The sound is now full of contrasts in the brilliant triad La bala , Shock and Desclasificado , then passes through the humor and program of Las cosas por su nombre , to finally the soul of Mi mitad and Volver . In the same year 2011 she played various toccatas in schools alongside MC Lagarto as part of the Chilean school and student protests .

In March 2014 she started her fourth solo album, Vengo , musically produced by Andrés Celis, in which she mixes different rhythms and cultures. In it, the artist presents a sound collection of 17 songs, from Tinku to a strongly protesting hip-hop, with undertones full of political manifestos, contingency issues and social and cultural problems. It starts with the eponymous track Vengo , followed by Somos Sur alongside Shadia Mansour , Antipatriarca - produced by Cristóbal Pérez (Pera Prezz), dedicated to female liberation, autonomy and the demand for their rights, as well as the demand for reporting violence against women . Somos Todos Erroristas follows , after previous collaborations again with contributions from Hordatoj . In the song Creo en Ti , co-produced by the guitarist Cristóbal Pérez, she counts on the support of Juanito Ayala with happy, positive lyrics loaded with awareness and hope, nuanced with tones from Charango, Quena and drum rolls, she shows the versatility of the combined styles and This creates a new local music atmosphere and also opens up a new target group in search of awards. With this album she finally got the attention of greats like Iggy Pop , who included the song Somos Sur in his BBC radio program playlist with the words: “This girl has balls”, or the Japanese composer and activist Ryuichi Sakamoto , who is on Facebook shared the songs Antipatriarca and No al TPP (2013).

With a larger number of international tours, she established herself as the Chilean artist of the hour in 2015, with appearances in Latin America, Europe and North America, known on a global and national level. In Chile, she was awarded the Premios Pulsar award in four categories: "best urban music artist", "song of the year" ( Vengo ), "album of the year" ( Vengo ) and "artist of the year" as a result of public votes. Rolling Stone magazine named her " Best Spanish Rapper" in March 2014 and the New York Times named her "the Latin American answer to Lauryn Hill". At the same time, Newsweek joined the flattery, calling Tijoux "probably the most famous Latin American rapper on the international scene".

Women's rights

In her musical work and in public statements, Ana Tijoux is committed to the defense of women's rights and accuses violence against women and a lack of equality . Furthermore, the inequality of women artists in the film world or of singers.

"In every place we visit, in every press release we see, we notice that violence against women is repeated, multiplied and completely normalized [...] Basically, they ask you who you leave your children with, when you go on tour, and it's often journalists who ask that, and then I ask myself, 'When, girls, are you going to ask that about the fathers who leave their children behind to go on tour?' ”

“We have to be young, we have to be attractive, we have to be intelligent, but please don't talk a lot, and sing beautifully and look as good as possible on stage [...] as a musician you ask yourself questions and say: 'Girls, what can I move here? 'because even if someone says at the end that you think critically, you are still confronted with it every day. "

In the album Vengo from 2014 Tijoux included the song "Antipatriarca" ('against the patriarchy '), whose music video premiered in 2015. In it she demands the autonomy of women so that they can make their own decisions and denounces violence against women.

Awards and Recognition

Ana Tijoux has been nominated for dozens of different awards, for example the Premios MTV Latin America , 40 Principales in the category of best Chilean artist , Indie Music Awards . She is the winner of the Premios Altazor 2012 with the piece Sacar la voz feat. Jorge Drexler in the best urban song category .

It is touted as one of the best Latin American MCs and was for the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America in the ratings Best New Artist and urban Best Female Artist nominee and was the second Chilean artist who for the US Grammy nominated in four categories: 2011 the album 1977 nominated for best latin / urban / alternative rock album , the same in 2013 with La Bala and 2015 with Vengo . She was also nominated in the Latin Grammys for La Bala for Best Urban Album (2012) and for Sacar la voz (2013).

2014 she won the Latin Grammy Song of the Year with Universos Paralelos together with Jorge Drexler and the same year was nominated them with Vengo as Best Urban Song.

Discography

Albums

• 2007: Kaos
• 2009: 1977 (US: )
• 2011: La bala
• 2014: Vengo
• 2020: Antifa Dance

Singles

• 2007: Despabílate
• 2008: Gol
• 2008: A veces
• 2010: 1977 (US: )
• 2010: Partir de cero
• 2010: Crisis de un MC
• 2011: Shock
• 2012: Sacar la voz
• 2014: Vengo
• 2014: Somos sur
• 2014: Los peces gordos no pueden volar
• 2014: Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire
• 2016: Calaveritas

Individual evidence

1. ^ National Public Radio, Ana Tijoux On World Cafe ( March 30, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ), March 16, 2011
2. ^ National Public Radio Tell Me More interview. July 29, 2010
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ana Tijoux, una estrella del rap latino contra la violencia de género , ELMUNDO. May 27, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2018. 
4. ↑ Sub Terra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
5. ↑ The 12 Best New Female Emcees Dominating Mics Everywhere . September 19, 2011. Archived from the original on June 25, 2014.
6. ↑ BEST RAPPER EN ESPANOL: Ana Tijoux . Rolling Stone . March 17, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
7. ^ A Beating Heart, a Social Conscience and a Deluge of Ideas . The New York Times . March 14, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
8. ↑ Chile's hip-hop heroine goes deep . Newsweek . March 18, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
9. ↑ ^{a b} (translation from Spanish) Panel discussion La lucha de la mujer en Argentina y América Latina in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Buenos Aires , August 24, 2016. Press report: Ana Tijoux: ¿Cuándo chucha le preguntarán a los hombres con quién dejan a sus hijos cuando van de gira? . El Ciudadano (Chile) . August 25, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
10. ^ Ana Tijoux - Antipatriarca . Nacional Records. May 29, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
11. ↑ Ana Tijoux: Casi todas las mujeres han sufrido violencia pero se asume como normal . ADN. June 1, 2015. Accessed May 19, 2018.
12. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
13. ^ Ana Tijoux Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song , Pitchfork March 20, 2020, accessed May 19, 2010

Web links

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• Anita Tijoux on Facebook
• Anita Tijoux at Discogs (English)