Viva La Hip Hop

Moe’s Alley
14831 Pierce Road
Santa Cruz, CA
831.479.1854
Friday August 12, 2011

Ana Tijoux
Live & Direct From CHILE & Backed By Her Full Band

+ BAYONICS special CD release performance for new album “Mission Statement”

Showtime: 9:00pm Doors: 8:00pm
Ticket price: $15/$20
Tickets available on-line at: http://www.moesalley.com/tickets.php?show_id=1194
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Moe’s Alley proudly announces the Santa Cruz debut of ANA TIJOUX from Chile.  Don’t miss one of the most talented female artists for this special Friday night get down.  To make sure the party kicks off right SF’s own BAYONICS open the show celebrating the release of their brand new album “Mission Statement”.

Regarded by many as the best rapper in the Spanish Language, Ana Tijoux’s career has spanned 10 years of pure hits. Starting with her groundbreaking group Makiza–which mixed socially conscious lyrics with production styles unheard of in Latin America–to collaborations that turned into world-wide hits with the likes of Julieta Venegas, Control Machete, y Bajofondo, to the voice of the Gorillaz-inspired, #1 children’s animated hit show Pulentos, Tijoux has always been at the forefront of her genre, one step ahead of the pack.

In 2010 she took a bold step forward to see if her flow would be accepted by those in the English-speaking world. The results: press raves and 2 coast-to-coast tours in the USA, picked by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke at the top of his summer listening list, #1 Latin album of the year at Amazon.com, breaking new ground on iTunes charts around the world, and to top it all of, a Grammy nomination–only the second ever by a Chilean artist.

Her laid-back stlye and flow, mixed with jazzy production akin to old school classic hip-hop from its golden era, gives her a unique sound that has caught the ears of new fans across the globe. And she uses these techniques to tell a story that is from from the typical hip-hop anthem: born in France to parents who had been forced into exile by a brutal dictatorship in Chile, growing up between two worlds and not even knowing what language to speak, returning to her “native” country at 13 and not fitting in anywhere, and above all, being a female MC in a male dominated world who is much more concerned with being at home to tuck in her son at night than pimping or dealing drugs on the street corner. A true revelation for Latin music, for world music, for hip-hop … Ana Tijoux is the real deal, a raw and honest tale wrapped in the most unlikely of packages, ready to explode on stage.