Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco

Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco is a Huilliche educator, poet, researcher, and traditional singer from Chiloé Island, Chile.

Her performance of traditional indigenous music of southern South America as part of the musical group Armazón has been preserved in two recordings: Gulkantün, canto ceremonial williche, which focuses on traditional Huilliche songs and is sung in Mapudungun, and Tributo a los Selk'nam, which focuses on music of the Selk'nam people.[1] The recordings were based on research Muñoz conducted among communities in the southern Patagonian archipelagos.[2] Her recordings are considered a dialogue between the elders of the Huilliche people and the younger generation, with the traditional songs fused with rock styles and traditional instruments played alongside modern ones.[3]

She also leads the band Anklaje, which performs indigenous music that, Muñoz says, "was forgotten for many years, but is reclaiming its place and the respect that it always should have been given."[4] She has worked to further spread knowledge of this music through presenting at international festivals[5] and collaborating on preservation projects with the General Council of Caciques of Chiloé.[6] In 2020, her piece "Kitral" won her second place in the folk music category of the Concurso de Composición Musical Luis Advis, a composition contest in Chile.[7]

Muñoz has also written poetry[8] and worked as a children's educator[6] and as an actress, appearing in the Silvio Caiozzi film And Suddenly the Dawn in 2017 and the film Sorcery in 2023.[9][10] In her review of Sorcery for the British Film Institute, Leila Latif described her performance as "darkly enigmatic".[11]

Discography

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  • Gülkantun - Canto Ceremonial Williche (1999), with Armazón
  • El deshielo del canto - Tributo a los Selk'nam (2003), with Armazón
  • Encaminados por los espíritus (2017), with Anklaje
  • We Newen (2019), with Anklaje
  • Küme Rupu (2022), with Anklaje

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Canto huilliche de Neddiel Muñoz es emblema de la 19 versión de Fitich". Fitich (in European Spanish). 2020-09-03. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  2. ^ Island songs : a global repertoire. Baldacchino, Godfrey., Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (Project). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8108-8178-5. OCLC 775302627.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Garrido, Waldo, 1962- (3 December 2018). Música de Chiloé : folklore, syncretism, and cultural development in a Chilean aquapelago. Bendrups, Dan,, Hayward, Philip. Lanham. ISBN 978-1-4985-2886-3. OCLC 1056202619.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "El grupo musical Anklaje se presentará en el Festival Imesur 2019". Soy Chile. 2019-09-25. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  5. ^ "La palabre délie les langues". Ouest France (in French). 2015-08-29.
  6. ^ a b "NEDDIEL MUÑOZ MILLALONCO". www.alsurdelmundo.cl. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  7. ^ "Anuncian a los ganadores del Concurso de Composición Musical Luis Advis". El Mostrador (in Spanish). 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  8. ^ Brooks, Zelda Irene. (1992). Carlos Alberto Trujillo : un poeta del sur de Sudamérica. Potomac, Md., U.S.A.: Scripta Humanistica. ISBN 9780916379889. OCLC 644312989.
  9. ^ "Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco, actriz Huichille que representa a Chile en la nominación de los Premios Oscar con "… Y de Pronto el Amanecer" de Silvio Caiozzi" (PDF). Y de Pronto el Amanecer.
  10. ^ "Brujería, de Christopher Murray: estreno en salas". UC Radio Beethoven (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  11. ^ "Sorcery review: revenge is best served nuanced". Sight and Sound.