“It happens a lot to women, that to enter certain spaces, we have to act like men”: Ile, former member of Calle 13 – BBC News Mundo

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In 2005, when Ileana Cabra (Ile) was 16 years old, her brothers René “Residente” Pérez and Eduardo “Visitante” asked her to collaborate on a song that would be part of the first album of the alternative music group Calle 13.

The single was titled “La aguacatona”, and its lyrics recount how a man in a nightclub tries to get closer to a woman “of the cutest with her style e’ Roma”. She then replies: “Lie back because my skirt has thorns / My black, I’m not your China”.

Despite singing that decisive and cutting lyrics, which harshly rebukes the approach of the male character, the today Anglo-Saxon Grammy winner and Latin Grammy nominee confesses that personally she was somewhat confused.

And, in general, the young Ile “I didn’t know what the plan was of their brothers in musical terms.

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“It happens a lot to women, that to enter certain spaces, we have to act like men”: Ile, former member of Calle 13 – BBC News Mundo