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Mariel Mariel
12+ albums
popalternativechileanfemale vocalistsunder 2000 listeners
about
Singer-songwriter Mariel Villagra, who performed in Chile as Mariel and later in Mexico as Mariel Mariel, has been a figure in a generation populated by female voices and solo artists in the 2000s. Her beginnings showed her with a rock-focused alternative pop accent, with her debut album No me despierten! (2007), but when she moved to Mexico City she ended up delineating a style of Latin and urban mixes, with a work of greater projection such as Foto pa ti (2015), which installed the musical concept of "flow latino": music from the big Latin American cities. Trained in repertoires and mixtures of folk roots and Latin American fusion since her first steps, around 1999 she appeared as backing vocalist and flautist in the band of her father, the saxophonist and composer Pedro Villagra (founding musician of Santiago del Nuevo Extremo), known as Pedroband. Shortly afterwards she recorded vocals on the album Otredad (2004). At the same time, Mariel Villagra had been working on an electronic drum and bass project called Ultrafat Soundsystem, but by the time she decided to start recording a solo album, her music was oriented towards pop and electric guitar rock. There he added pseudonyms such as Lolita, Estrella and Moway. To present No me despierten!, released by the Azul label in 2007, Mariel used a band with guitarist and singer-songwriter Javier Barría, and jazz drummer Andy Baeza, among others. The album was produced by Luis Tata Bigorra (Los Tetas, Funk Attack) and featured
