Ana Tijoux: In Conversation

There are few and far between artists who always defy categorisation. The singer, rapper and hip-hop artist Ana Tijoux is one of them. Born in Lille, France, of Chilean parents exiled from Pinochet regime, she was then brought up in Paris and "re-educated" in Chile. Ana is the daughter of a famous sociologist mother and a political scientist father who exposed her to jazz and 70's political song writers from Latin America. She is already a celebrated musician who embodies the truly global community spirit of our time. Her music gives voice to the muted and marginalised members of our societies. She is, in her own words, "an optimist in theory but a pessimist in practice" who nevertheless manages to bring a message of transgenerational hope and resistance to all of us. This programme was recorded in front of a live audience at Senate House in London as part of the Thinking Iberoamerica series organised by The Institute of Latin American Studies and The Cervantes Institute. Presenters: Ignacio Peyró and Juan ToledoWatch Ana Tijoux's masterful videos Somos sur and Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire