Isleña Antumalen

Chile

Isleña Antumalen

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Isleña Antumalen 🇨🇱

Isleña Antumalen was born Antumalen Ayelen Antillanca Urrutia on Huapi Island, Chile in 1998. She is Huilliche, a Mapuche ethnic group who are indigenous to southern South America. Isleña explores themes of indigenous identity in her music. She began performing music under her stage name in 2020. Her music has been described as having elements of many musical genres including rap, reggaeton, dembow, soul, dub, Afrobeat, cumbia, and perreo (a style of dance and party music associated with reggaeton that emerged in the late 1980s in Puerto Rico).  She sings and raps in both Spanish and Mapudungun (from mapu ‘land’ and dungun ‘speak, speech’, meaning ‘the speech of the land’). She has become a prominent artist on the Chilean urban scene. Isleña Antumalen performed at the first International Indigenous Music Summit held in the summer of 2023 in Toronto. Her debut album Ñaña was released in 2024 on the Spanish record label Everlasting Records.