Ana Tijoux's "1977" Nominated for GRAMMY Award





"As one of South America’s best-regarded MCs, male or female, the prodigiously loquacious Tijoux is seldom at a loss for words." - LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Tijoux is an artist with the promise to cross borders and genres." - BILLBOARD

ANA TIJOUX UPCOMING 2011 TOUR DATES:
2/12 – Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA
2/14 – The Casbah – San Diego, CA
2/17 – Salon Vive Cuervo – Mexico City
2/18 – Elbo Room – San Francisco, CA
2/19 – The New Parish – Oakland, CA
2/20 – The Sol Collective – Sacramento, CA
4/9 – Vive Latino Festival – Mexico City


Hip-hop reina Ana Tijoux was lying in bed at 4 AM in Madrid, Spain, when she got the news that her breakthrough album ‘1977’ had been nominated to the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. As the second Chilean artist to ever be nominated, Tijoux was understandably a bit shocked at the news. The possibility had never really even crossed her mind.

“For me, the GRAMMY nomination is the cherry on top of a very surprising trip that my album has made,” she says. “I had never imagined anything like this, I'm at a complete loss for words.”

Tijoux’s life has been marked by these underdog success stories. She has always flourished when the cards are seemingly stacked against her. Born in France to Chilean parents who had fled the harsh regime of Augusto Pinochet in their native Chile, Tijoux grew up as an outsider between two worlds, and never really fit into either. But she eventually would find her calling while making rhymes on the streets of Santiago in the 90s, right as hip-hop was about to take off in the local scene.

From the very beginning, the pint-sized MC was bashing barriers as a female rapper in a male-dominated genre using her distinct flow to help catapult her first group, the underground hip-hop sensation Makiza, to become widely regarded as one of the early classics of its genre. Since Makiza, Tijoux development as a solo artist has taken her to the next level, to uncharted waters for a Latin rapper.

This past spring, Tijoux’s debut U.S. tour covered more than 20 dates across the country, packing rooms from the sunny coast of San Diego out to the gritty hip-hop goldmine of Detroit and wrapping up in the Big Apple. The buzz continued for Tijoux as she was featured as the MTV Tr3s “Descubre & Download” artist of the fall as well as a performance in NPR’s influential “Tiny Desk Concert” series. This followed a busy summer where Ana completed her second lengthy U.S. tour and had her hit single “1977” spotlighted as the iTunes “Single Of The Week” and in a playlist by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.

Arguably one of the top MCs in Latin America, Tijoux has been nominated by the MTV Latin America VMAs for “Best New Artist” and “Best Urban Artist” in recent years. She has been featured on tracks by Argentine electronic-tango collective Bajofondo, Mexican hip-hop icons Control Machete and Chilean beat master DJ Bitman. But it was her collaboration with Julieta Venegas on the track, “Eres Para Mi,” which helped expose Tijoux to a mainstream audience. The song became a TV and radio smash hit across Latin America and the U.S.



With the album ‘1977,’ Tijoux proves her abilities as a true “rapera” through her jazzy vocals, sophisticated lyrics and hynoptic beats. The album, named for her year of birth, paints a picture of her childhood in France and pays homage to the early 90s era of hip-hop that influenced her as a teenager in Chile.

“I started re-exploring the classic albums - Nas’ ‘Illmatic,’ Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘36 Chambers,’ and A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘Midnight Marauder,’” Tijoux says. “It was like running into your first ex-boyfriend after many years and falling in love all over again.”

“’1977’ is like an album from that ‘golden-age’ of rap, a style that I never get tired of,” she explains. “I can’t stand much of modern rap music, it’s just not what I’m about: bling, fancy cars, etc. That music is like the brothel of rap. I’m trying to stage a revival of the generation that I liked the most – ’92 – ’95.”

Recorded between May and September 2009, ‘1977’ was produced by a trio of Santiago’s best: Hordatoj, Foex and Tee. Among the special guests include acclaimed Detroit-based MC Invincible on a virtual Myspace collaboration for“Sube” and Solo Di Medina on the French track “Ooh La La.” “I think it’s a fairly simple album, straight from the vein,” Tijoux says. “I wanted to make a straightforward record, just good lyrics, good beats, good samples and good scratching… that’s it.”

Tijoux is currently at work on the follow-up to '1977' with plans for a new album release in 2011.



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