Vocalists
Rapper
Luanko or Minuto Soler
Through the modern instrument of rap, Luanko revitalizes the language of Mapudungun and engages not only his fellow Mapuche people, but also listeners around the world. The genre of rap provides the perfect framework to call out the oppressors of Indigenous people—capitalism, colonialism, the state.
Singer
Beatriz Pichi Malen
In an interview with Gilda in the Argentine social journalism medium La Tinta, Beatriz Pichi Malen explains the Mapuche understanding of land.
"In synthesis, about the relationship of music with the earth ... I would tell you that the earth is a single soul, be it beyond the seas, the mountains, the forests, and the vastness, let's say like the deserts, but beyond all that, it is all one soul. And we as a species are in it. But we are not different… Yes, we are different, but I want to say that we are not outstanding, we are not the most important. No. The Mapuche understand that the human species is one of many species, but we are unique and irreproducible. If I was born again, it wouldn't be the same, would it? So, we have that power to be unique and irreproducible, but at the same time a tiny part that makes up all this wealth that Mapu Ñuke gives us, which is Mother Earth. That is the greatness that the nature of the earth has, right? It offers us permanently new situations, new moments, from the moment that it moves away from the Sun, from the light, and approaches like now, which comes in June. That gradual approach again to the light and the light on it makes everything be born again, sprout again, have a new twist, right?
So all that makes it a rhythm, a rhythm of the pulse, of beating, a rhythm of the pulse of life, a musical rhythm of the pulse of life. And we understand it from there, not from singing as something extraordinary or with the gifts to be able to do it. All and all species sing, the human species too. And making a profession of that is actually another thing, to the point that I am not a singer. I am a singer.
A singer, for me, is a person who becomes professional, who is going to learn to teach him to breathe, to hold the notes, to stand up, to see how he opens the air duct and we simply say to remove the sound . For that, we say the song ül , that's how we call the song: ül . And the singer or the singer is ü lkantufe , the one who makes that sound get out of the body. That's why it's him , because if you rehearse it, you will make your abdomen hard, the sound will come out and we are not thinking about how to modulate. It just comes out, as it is. Well, that's why all the people in the Mapuche world are singers and singers, we all express the feeling of what is good, how happy, how happy we can be or, on the contrary, sadness, sorrow, right? ?, when some pain seizes us."
Singer
Puelpan
The description of "La Indiá" on YouTube perfectly explains Puelpan's mission and power.
"From an unknown underground world, nestled in the bowels of Santiago Waria, sounds rise to the surface that evoke a mapunk, electro-Andean and futuristic atmosphere. Puelpan has summoned his inseparable ñañas and fighting companions, the superheroines Ninja Newen, in order to conjure up the forces of the past and the future in a heretical ayekan, call and invocation for the definitive awakening of human consciences doped and subjugated by impossible capitalist dreams, repressive states, patriarchal and world colonialism without winning. In a rhythmic succession of lights and shadows that intertwine with dancing and combative silhouettes, traversed by intervened images of a past, or perhaps a possible future, the sound and visual plot of "La Indiá" is an incitement in pop code to inhabit the times that happen to us with courage, eyes open and the pen stopped."