Just before taking the stage, the teenage indigenous rapper took a deep breath and composed herself, eyes closed.
Her father reached over to pick a sequin from his daughter’s eyelid, but the 16-year-old recoiled with an embarrassed shrug. Then Millaray Jara Collio, or MC Millaray, as the young rapper calls herself, spun away and exploded onto the stage with an animated rap about the presence of Chile’s military in the territory of the Mapuche, the country’s largest indigenous group.
MC Millaray’s impassioned performance was delivered at a campaign event in Santiago, Chile’s capital, a few months…
