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Música cebolla (Spanish for "onion music") is a genre of Chilean music emphasising sentimentality and intimacy.[1] Indeed, at times the feelings expressed in música cebolla are "exacerbated".[1] Música cebolla had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s,[1] and was thus contemporary to Nueva ola,[2] the early Nueva Canción and the introduction of Cumbia to Chile.[3]

For a long time música cebolla was derided, ridiculed or ignored by mass media.[3]

Among older generations Palmenia Pizarro is an icon of música cebolla albeit she rejects the label. Palmenia has influenced contemporary música cebolla artist like Mon Laferte[4][5][6] and Los Vásquez.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Música cebolla". MusicaPopular.cl. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  2. ^ Nueva ola Archived 2009-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Musicapopular.cl. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Tropical". MusicaPopular.cl. Archived from the original on 3 June 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Mon Laferte evita polémica festivalera y canta en la conferencia de prensa previa a su show" [Mon Laferte Avoids Festival Controversy and Sings at the Press Conference Prior to Her Show]. La Tercera (in Spanish). 24 February 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Los 7 discos que más le llegaron en su vida a Mon Laferte" [The 7 Albums That Most Got to Mon Laferte in His Life]. Loud (in Spanish). 15 July 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Mon Laferte: "Hacer 'música cebolla' es como mi revancha"". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). November 12, 2018.
  7. ^ Contreras, Marcelo (7 December 2015). "Los Vásquez: los héroes de la conquista" [Los Vásquez: The Heroes of the Conquest]. La Tercera Voces. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2018.