Chilean President José Antonio Kast received hip-hop artist Angie Corine in La Moneda. The American artist based in Spain shared an image this Tuesday with the Chilean president outside the Government Palace and with her walking the corridors of the Gallery of the Presidents, where there are sculptures of former Chilean leaders, including the socialist Salvador Allende. In the text that accompanies the album on the social network, Corine states that it was an honor. “Chile woke up and, God willing, Spain will follow in your footsteps. Always on the right side,” wrote the artist who in her songs supports Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, the Spanish far-right party. Corine has even performed at a campaign rally for the party.
The rapper reacted by thanking the Republican Party deputy, Cristián Araya – “you are in N1” – and the Liberty Fest Forum “for making everything possible.” The forum he mentions was held last Saturday in the center of Santiago, under the motto “united for economic and individual freedom.” Among its exponents was the Argentine influencer Macarena Jimena Rodríguez, Coverage coordinator. “If you want to fight the cultural battle, if you want to be nourished by ideas, if you want to have tools to defend yourself, to continue building the freedom of your country, come, because you will not regret it,” said the Argentine in a call video. Also part of the event were lawyer Ivette Avaria, who participated last year in the presidential campaign of her husband, the libertarian Johannes Kaiser, and Republican Party representative Javiera Rodríguez.
Angela Corine Harrison, Angie Corneywas born in Alabama in 1999 and is the daughter of Polish parents. The artist and content creator, who has lived in Spain since she was six years old, has 739,000 followers on Instagram, 781,000 on TikTok and more than a million on YouTube. In the lyrics of his songs he attacks the Government of socialist Pedro Sánchez, immigration, the welfare state and taxes, among others.
In an interview with EL PAÍS in October of last year, she explained that what she does in her lyrics is denounce injustices and social criticism. “We face one of the greatest injustices in our recent history. Although there are few artists who openly defend certain positions, I know that we represent the voice of many Spaniards. Some people say that rap cannot be used to support a right-wing party, but they are the first to pigeonhole the genre into a single political ideology and to limit the freedom of those who think differently. Rap is music, and music is freedom of expression,” said the artist behind the songs. Spain, Spain 2, Spain 3 y Spain 4, the latter under the rhythm of dembow, originally from the Dominican Republic.
