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Ana Tijoux Redfines Herself With Latin Folk Music

The Chilean MC switches to Latin folk music and emotional singing for her upcoming album.
Ana Tijoux

In the spring of 2014, I was in the audience at Vive Latino, the massive music festival held in Mexico City every year, when Chilean hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux took the stage.

I was expecting I saw in 2012 in New York, full of the rhythmic verbal intensity and bravura that made her one of the fiercest MC's in any language.

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