Today's Song of the Day, as selected by KEXP DJ Gabriel Teodros in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, is "Escribiendo La Historia" by Mare Advertencia, from the 2020 SiempreViva EP on Derretida Ent / MuyMAL.
Today's Song of the Day was selected by KEXP DJ Gabriel Teodros, host of Early, in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, commemorating the importance of the history, culture, and connection to the lands that our Indigenous communities call home. More info here.
An Indigenous Zapotec artist, rapper and activist Mare Advertencia has been using her voice to amplify underrepresented communities since she burst onto the scene in 2003 alongside Dj TBear. "My life context has taught me that I can use my voice,” she told Refinery 29 last year, “And maybe that’s a privilege of mine, one I shouldn’t have, but I trust very much what I have to say. I don’t fear what I have to say.”
On her 2020 EP SiempreViva, she combines rap and funk to help express her reflections on feminism, cultural identity, and social inequality. She said in a press release at the time, "It is a material that invites us to learn to live despite death and violence, proposes a metaphor with the everlasting flower that reminds us that, despite adversity, hope is always with us. We have the possibility to reinvent our reality, the way life is presented to us and to find ourselves in community."
Mare hails from the same activist community as organizer Rosa Marina Flores Cruz, who is featured in the artwork for this year's Indigenous Peoples' Day (see here). Tune in to Early today, on Monday, October 10th, to hear an interview DJ Gabriel Teodros conducted with Rosa (where she happens to mention Mare). If you miss it, be sure to check out KEXP's Two-Week Streaming Archive.
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