FRANCESCA ANCAROLA
Genres: World Fusion, Latin Jazz, Pop, Art Song, Folk • Chile

María Francesca Ancarola Saavedra (born 18 March 1968) is a Chilean singer and songwriter. Ancarola’s musical style is a mix of folk and jazz, with social justice themes, and she is considered a part of the Chilean New Song movement. Ancarola began her musical career in the 1980s, winning a prize at a festival organised by the magazine La Bicicleta y el Café del Cerro, a publication associated with the Chilean New Song movement. She graduated from the University of Chile with a degree in music and later studied singing at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 1997, she won a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music. Ancarola’s first album as a soloist was Que el canto tiene sentido (English: For a song has meaning) in 1999. The album’s title was a tribute to the song Manifiesto by Víctor Jara, the popular singer-songwriter of the New Song read more...