Ana Villablanca Campos He was around 14 years old when he started to fall in love with rap. Rap, you know, but if you don’t know, it corresponds to an acronym that means “Rhythm and poetry.”
“I lived in Puente Alto in a vulnerable neighborhood, surrounded by drugs and things like that. But also about rappers and music. I studied a lot, and I also liked to write. It was from that side that I was attracted to rap, music, rhyme and poetry. Since then I haven’t stopped. For me it was an escape route,” he said in the Black in Power space in 2018.
At that time, Deskisabia She was close to releasing her first album, “Praxis”, which ended up being released in 2019.
“You don’t start rap with the screening of an album. I recorded at home with my brother and then I formed a female group, with them we recorded songs but it never materialized into anything else. As a girl, at most I thought about recording a song and that’s it, but then with time comes progress,” she says in the aforementioned interview.
That progress, in the case of Deskisabia, materialized in 6 albums (2 of them EP) and a significant number of singles and videos. His most recent audiovisual work “Cold Blood” was recorded in the United States and featured a feat by Nashville rapper, Charlie P.
About “Inmortales”, his latest EP published in 2021 and whose videos are coming out this year, he told Música Chilena: “It is the real expression of what is experienced on the street, where you choose to live or survive. I was inspired by my experiences, by the confidence, perseverance and conviction that I have fostered from my roots to this day.”
The following year, as stated in a note from La Celda de Bob, “Ana Villablanca has not ceased to surprise with her successive releases, releasing a series of singles in the last year, among which are “Rapíces” with Soldao Sean, “Estampida ” connecting with emcees from Argentina, Puerto Rico and Spain such as Fríbolo, Cerotres, Funes, Broway and Savio Vega, “A mi vida” with the Mexican Spyboii, “My way” with the American Ron G SC and their most recent “Fe” produced by Demuz.
“Rapper, I remain faithful with immutable faith/All my writings are mine by law/To reach my level you have to learn” she spits and educates in My Way.
The chosen phrase is not random but key to understanding the development of the rapper.
Professor Ana
In the YouTube program “Reyes del Género” he told about his beginnings in Hip Hop culture.
“My name comes from wise because I was always studious, and I like to read, but I also have an attitude and a half-impulsive part, that’s why I get upset,” she explained.
“I started bombing (making tags) on buses. Also, my brother was a rapper, so I was always surrounded by that, and that’s how I started doing freestyle.”
About his adolescence he said: “I remember arriving at school when I was 13 or 14 with ink on my hands and baggy clothes. It was difficult, because obviously they told me that I looked like a man and they challenged me because the police could catch me, but seeing a white wall and wanting to scratch it was like a vice, it was a lot of adrenaline.
That passion, she said there, led her to live extreme moments such as being “shot at” on one occasion and on another occasion “being trapped between two buses, luckily because I was skinny, nothing happened to me,” she recalled.
Among her inspirations in rap, the singer has mentioned in different interviews various voices of American rap from the nineties, although she has also said that Spanish rap influenced her.
Nas, Nate Dogg, Ashanti, Snoop Dogg, Da Brat, Arianna Puello and Hurricane G are his greatest references. “Poetry and the metaphorical way of writing is what I always liked. I think the older rappers were very dedicated to literature, there was more lyricism than flow,” she says.
That same passion was what led Ana to become a basic education teacher with a major in Language. Over the years she has managed to balance teaching with her musical career.
“I feel like a reference for my students. I work in a vulnerable sector, where my students live in the same circumstances as me. I am aware that teachers mark you and if I can sow something in them, that fulfills me. For example, on student day, sing, and be seen, hey, look at Aunt Anita, that is gratifying,” she said.
However, in another interview, given to La Celda de Bob, he said that at some point he had had to change establishments and keep his artistic side more low-profile.
“Now I try not to mix it up, this country is very prejudiced. Although it is sometimes striking, it can also turn into something bad, because many times you are expected to be a teacher and nothing more. “There are people who find it difficult to understand that a teacher has another life and other interests apart from her classes.”he explained to Darío Gutierrez.
In an interview with Maestros del Ritmo, from 2020, he told about his daily routine: “I come home from work and the rest of the day is full of writing and practicing, with my producer ZKL we have our own studio, so the fluidity to create is quite pleasant. . Everything is full record and write. Because practice is important. In my case I started very low and with my own efforts I have achieved great things. Consistency and work make things happen,” he explained.
“I once heard that you don’t choose Hip Hop, but Hip Hop chooses people, and I faithfully believe in that. And I feel like one of those people. In that sense, I am aware that this requires perseverance and commitment, beyond with people, with Hip Hop and with myself,” she decreed in Black in Power.
