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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 heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, and was thus contemporary to
Nueva ola The nueva ola (; Spanish for "new wave") was a loosely affiliated group of musicians, mainly in Spanish-speaking South America, who played and introduced rock 'n roll and other American and European music of the 1950s and 1960s to their countries ...
,Nueva ola
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the early
Nueva Canción (European , ; 'new song') is a left-wing social movement and musical genre in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, characterized by folk music, folk-inspired styles and socially committed lyrics. is widely recognized to have played a profou ...
and the introduction of
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, Europeans, and Africans during colonial times. Cumbia is said to have com ...
to Chile. For a long time música cebolla was derided, ridiculed or ignored by mass media. Among older generations Palmenia Pizarro is an icon of música cebolla albeit she rejects the label. Palmenia has influenced contemporary música cebolla artist like
Mon Laferte Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte (born 2 May 1983) better known as Mon Laferte, is a Chilean and Mexican musician, singer, songwriter and painter. Her musical style is diverse, spanning across different genres such as pop, rock, bolero, cu ...
and
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 2 ...
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