“The world is moving in a very weird direction,” says Andrea Echeverri from her home in Bogota, Colombia. The woman, with her son’s playful Spanish in the background, is one-half of Bogota’s pioneering rock band, Aterciopelados, who vow to continue doing what they do: make music of mythological sounds and indisputable success. Her story is one of harnessing music’s raw current to demand social change, and Echeverri embodies a socially aware musical archetype. Whereas male bands historically define rock music, Echeverri forged her own niche and, thereby, a new space for women.

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