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Música Cebolla
Música cebolla (Spanish for "onion music") is a genre of Chilean music emphasising sentimentality and intimacy. Indeed at times the feelings expressed in música cebolla are "exacerbated". Música cebolla had its heydays in the 1950s and 1960s, and was thus contemporary to Nueva ola,Nueva ola
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the early and the introduction of Cumbia to Chile. For long time música cebolla was derided, ridiculized or ignored by mass media. Among older generations

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Chilean Music
Chilean music refers to all kinds of music developed in Chile, or by Chileans in other countries, from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors to the modern day. It also includes the native pre-Columbian music from what is today Chilean territory. Music in Chile Pre-Columbian and colonial times Prior to the arrival of the European conquerors, the modern national borders that make up the Americas did not exist, so one cannot refer to music from "Chile", or any other South American country, from this time. However, music existed in the Americas for centuries before European conquest, and many of the characteristics and instruments of pre-Hispanic music have formed part of the folkloric and musical tradition of Chile and of Latin America. Archaeological excavations have unearthed many musical instruments showing the existence of a variety of musical cultures in the area long before even the Inca period. Scientific research into remains left by the Nazca and Mochica peoples has ...
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Nueva Canción
Nueva canción (European , ; 'new song') is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian peninsula, characterized by folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics. ''Nueva canción'' is widely recognized to have played a profound role in the pro-democracy social upheavals in Portugal, Spain and Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s, and was popular amongst socialist organizations in the region. Songs reflecting conflict have a long history in Spanish, and in Latin America were particularly associated with the "''corrido''" songs of Mexico's War of Independence after 1810, and the early 20th Century years of Revolution. ''Nueva canción'' then surfaced almost simultaneously during the 1960s in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Spain. The musical style emerged shortly afterwards in other areas of Latin America where it came to be known under similar names. ''Nueva canción'' renewed traditional Latin American folk music, and was soon associated ...
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Cumbia
Cumbia refers to a number of musical rhythms and folk dance traditions of Latin America, generally involving musical and cultural elements from American Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans during colonial times, and Europeans. Examples include: * Colombian cumbia, is a musical rhythm and traditional folk dance from Colombia. It has elements of three different cultures, American Indigenous, African, and Spanish, being the result of the long and intense meeting of these cultures during the Conquest and the Colony. * Panamanian cumbia, Panamanian folk dance and musical genre, developed by enslaved people of African descent during colonial times and later syncretized with American Indigenous and European cultural elements. Regional adaptations of Colombian cumbia Argentina * Argentine cumbia * Cumbia villera, a subgenre of Argentine cumbia born in the slums * Fantasma, a 2001 group formed by Martín Roisi and Pablo Antico * Cumbia santafesina, a musical genre emerged in Santa Fe, ...
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Palmenia Pizarro
Palmenia del Carmen Pizarro González (born 19 July 1941), better known as Palmenia Pizarro, is a Chilean singer. Biography Palmenia Pizarro was born in San Felipe, Valparaíso Region, in the neighborhood of El Almendral. She discovered her taste for music in childhood. Her parents and her teacher motivated her to start a long career, full of difficulties, at age seven. When she was eleven, she moved to Santiago to try her luck as a singer. At sixteen, her talent was recognized by some radio stations, and she was awarded as "Best Folkloric Performer". Her participation in the Así Canta Perú radio contest in 1962 led the EMI label to hire her. In 1963, songs like "Mi Pobreza" and "Amarga Experiencia" achieved spectacular sales. Her shows were blockbusters, achieving the recognition of both critics and the Chilean public. It was with the song "Cariño Malo" by Peruvian composer Augusto Polo Campos that Pizarro achieved her breakthrough. However, a series of events, exacerbated b ...
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Mon Laferte
Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte (born 2 May 1983) is a Chilean musician, singer, composer and painter. She is known for her musical versatility, having composed songs in a wide variety of genres such as pop, rock, bolero, cumbia and salsa. In the 2010s she gained acclaim for her melodramatics and "captivating stage persona". By 2019, she was the Chilean artist with the most listeners on Spotify worldwide, as well as being the Chilean artist with the most nominations in a single edition of the Latin Grammy Awards (5 in 2017). To date she has sold over 1,5 million digital records in Latin America between albums and singles, making her the best-selling Chilean artist in the digital era. Some of her successes include "Tormento", "Amor completo", "Si tú me quisieras", "Tu falta de querer", " Amárrame", and "Mi buen amor". She received a Latin Grammy in 2017 for Best Alternative Song for " Amárrame". Early life and education Mon Laferte was born Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laf ...
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La Tercera
''La Tercera'' ( es, The Third One), formerly known as ''La Tercera de la Hora'' ('the third of the hour'), is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa. It is ''El Mercurio''s closest competitor. ''La Tercera'' is part of Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos (Latin American Newspaper Association), an organization of fourteen leading newspapers in South America. History The newspaper La Tercera was founded on July 7, 1950 by Picó Cañas family. In the beginning it was called La Tercera de la Hora, as it was the evening edition of the now defunct newspaper ''La Hora''. Later in the 1950s it left aside its connection with La Hora to become a morning paper. Initially, La Tercera was linked to the Radical Party, but in 1965 this association was ended, and it became independent of any political party, system of government or religious confession. In 1970, the newspaper was one of the staunchest opponents to the government of Salvador Allende and in 1973 an ...
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Los Vásquez
Los Vásquez is a Chilean pop rock duo formed in Coyhaique, Chile. Formed by Italo Vásquez and Enzo Vásquez. The duo became popular in 2010 with the song ''Tu me haces falta'' from the album "Contigo pop y cebolla". History After training in 2009. In 2010, they dedicated to getting stereos, which composed the letters and sounds of their first album, entitled ''"Contigo pop y cebolla"''. In mid 2010 it was released their first single "Tú me haces falta". In early 2011 they began getting popular in local radio stations. That same year the duo released another single "Miénteme una vez", which was the soundtrack of the soap opera "(novela) Esperanza, which helped expand their popularity. In late 2011, more than 5,000 people came together to view their first concert in the Caupolicán Theatre in Santiago. During 2012 the duo was listed as ''Most Listened to Artist of 2012''. In 2013 Los Vasquez launch their second full-album entitled "De sur a norte", selling more than 20,000 c ...
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