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She is about the great Susana Baca, recognized for promoting and caring for Afro-Peruvian sounds; Wendy Sulca, singer of popular music, reggaeton and Latin pop, and Marie Cherry, pop singer and the only one who is not so well known in Colombia. The three of them, however, are motivated to fight for the serious problem of violence against women. And Being a woman and living without fear is her claim. For this reason, with a fusion of urban and electronic rhythms that evoke Afro-Peruvian and Andean roots, Wendy Sulca joined her voice with that of Susana Baca and Marie Cherry in protest against gender violence in Peru, where every three days a woman dies woman murdered at the hands of a man for misogyny. This unprecedented trio released Mountain Woman, a song in which the artists shout in unison a message of female empowerment and invite women not to remain silent in the face of episodes of violence and abuse. "It is a song that encourages women to raise their voices, to defend their rights and to love themselves", said Sulca, the Peruvian girl who in 2008 triumphed on the internet with La tetita and Cerveza, cerveza, the two greatest hits from his childhood, which today have more than 21 million views on YouTube. Thus, the "powerful" lyrics of Mujer montaña unapologetically applaud the desire of Peruvian women to "live, love and laugh without fear", as the winner of three Latin Grammy awards recites in the song, Susan Baca. In fact, the initiative to bring the three artists together was born as a result of the 'Live without fear' campaign, promoted by feminist organizations that fight to prevent and eradicate gender violence. "We would like to never have to talk about this again but it happens that violence has increased around here," read the first bars of the song. After registering 166 femicides in 2019, the worst year in the last decade, Peru closed 2020 with 131 femicides and 330 attempts, according to official data from the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations. In addition, the Women's Emergency Centers (CEM) received more than 13,840 complaints of sexual violence, the majority concentrated in Lima (1,706), the southern region of Arequipa (446) and the northern region of La Libertad (429). The most frequent victims were adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 (6,007) and girls between the ages of 6 and 11 (2,862). Although alarming, these figures may not reflect reality, since the CEMs themselves stopped operating during the months of strict quarantine, between March and July, when many women found themselves trapped at home, unprotected from their attackers. For all of them, "we raise our voice", said Sulca, who trusts that Mountain Woman can "inspire women not to remain silent and to denounce" because, as the song says, "the cry of one is for all". The 24-year-old artist recognized that her world, that of "entertainment and art", is no stranger to machismo. In this sense, the young woman lamented that in the music business women are often "not taken seriously" "simply for the fact of being a woman. I used to spend a lot with my mom, when she was my manager< /b>", explained the young woman, who rose to fame at just eight years old and for whom the help of her mother, who was her representative for a long time, was key after the death of her father. "There were situations where you clearly saw that there was machismo" and "it's very different when the manager is a man," he said. Aware of the urgency of finding a vaccine against social injustices such as misogyny, the artist assures that she has "always" been present in campaigns that carry a message for the people, whether from on stage or behind the screens. of social networks, the only alternative in times of pandemic. The arrival of the coronavirus in Peru frustrated the concert schedule that Sulca had planned, who has not set foot on stage for almost a year and admits that she is anxious to feel "energy, nerves" and "vibration interaction" with the public again. . The last few months, however, were not in vain for the young woman, who decided to take advantage of the quarantine to reinvent herself and launch her clothing line, which she has called Princess Inca. "The dream of the clothing brand was always present in me (...) but the opportunity had never been given and when the pandemic emerged I said 'it is now or never,'" he explained. Thus, while working on her next releases, Sulca makes skirts, tops and other items that she has personalized with phrases from her best-known songs, such as the one that two years ago marked a before and after in her musical career: "Don't ask me La Titty, that's it." It was in January 2019 when the young woman decided to capture her new musical facet with the release of reggaeton "Eso ya fue", an urban-style song where she turned the page to the huaynos La tetita and Cerveza, cerveza.With the premiere of that new single, where it says "don't ask me for La tetita, that already was", the artist decided to temporarily hide her childhood hits from her YouTube channel to give herself a chance in urban music . "It was just a strategy" so that "new people who look for me will get what I'm doing most recently" but "many people took it in a bad way, as if they were ashamed of my roots," she lamented. In this sense, the singer denied having ever denied her origins and cited as an example My Land (2018), a single where she extols Andean customs such as Ayacucho, the region in the southern Peruvian Andes where her family comes from.

Before that, the Peruvian had already tried more commercial music and interspersed her own songs with versions of international hits like Like a Virgin, by Madonna, or Explosión, an electronic recreation of Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball. EFE

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