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Artist
Cecilia Echenique
12+ albums
singer-songwriterpopfemale vocalistsBallad
about
Among the Chilean performers, Cecilia Echenique displays a versatile repertoire of widespread validity. Her career, marked by her ten years as a member of the children's music group Mazapán, has been able to seek paths of development in almost opposite spheres, from music of religious inspiration to a sensual register of Brazilian classics. Musicians such as Eduardo Peralta, Mario Rojas and Alberto Plaza have been among his partners. Echenique's first instrument was not the voice, but the recorder. She has a bachelor's degree in music from the Catholic University and postgraduate studies in baroque music in England. In 1979, on her return from that experience, she won the competition "Una canción para Jesús", a festival of one of the important artistic resistance circuits to the dictatorship, and in which Echenique became a leading voice. In 1980, the singer began her decade of work with Mazapán, a group with which she recorded albums and had a programme broadcast by Televisión Nacional de Chile. At the same time, she became interested in the music of her own generation, in the style that has characterised her career as a singer: Canto Nuevo. In fact, with a show alongside the troubadour Eduardo Peralta, she inaugurated the Café del Cerro on 15 September 1982, a key point for the development of the style. In 1982 Echenique travelled to the United States, where he formed a baroque music group at Princeton University. In 1985, she returned to Chile and, as a welcome, she par
