MIGRATION, INTERNAL WAR, AND ANDEAN IDENTITY IN PERU
Interview with Peruvian singer-songwriter Manuelcha Prado, whose latest album, Saqra, accompanied by the Banda Kavilando, fuses Andean music with blues and jazz. His musical proposal is one more face of the culture that Andean migrants have recreated and created in Lima to face the challenges that their settlement in a hostile and precarious space imposes on them. His personal experience as a highland migrant on the coast is shared by millions of Peruvians; he is one more of the Ayachucans who live in the Huanta settlement in the populous Lima district of San Juan de Lurigancho. His songs poetically chronicle the daily experience of the violent clash between the two Limas, the criollo and the Andean. The Andeanization of Lima. The internal war. Andean identity.