Peruvian musician Renata Flores first went viral with a YouTube hit when she was 13 with a cover of a British rock song. Since then, she has started to represent her Indigenous heritage in her songs, as one of the few rap artists spitting rhymes in Quechua. Reporters Gisele Regatao and Vera Haller caught up with her in Ayacucho, Peru, to learn more about how she’s using music to fight discrimination.
The story you just read is available to read for free because thousands of listeners and readers like you generously support our nonprofit newsroom. Every day, the reporters and producers at The World are hard at work bringing you human-centered news from across the globe. But we can’t do it without you: We need your support to ensure we can continue this work for another year.
When you make a gift of $10 or more a month, we’ll invite you to a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of our newsroom to thank you for being with The World.