1. Sara Curruchich was born on 25 July 1993 and is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter of Kaqchikel descent.
15 Facts About Sara Curruchich
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Sara Curruchich became well known in her country with her 2015 song "Ch'uti'xtan".
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Sara Curruchich was born on 25 July 1993 in San Juan Comalapa, a town in Guatemala's Chimaltenango department.
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Sara Curruchich began singing and playing guitar with her family at a young age.
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Sara Curruchich's mother used the money she made while working to put her daughter through school at the Jesus Maria Alvarado School for Music Teachers, where she studied music education.
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Sara Curruchich became particularly well known in Guatemala for the ballad "Ch'uti'xtan", which gained hundreds of thousands of views on social media streaming platforms in 2015.
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Also in 2017, Sara Curruchich embarked on the Raiz tour throughout Guatemala.
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On 3 June 2017 Sara Curruchich performed alongside the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in Tijuana, Mexico, at a protest against the construction of US president Donald Trump's border wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Sara Curruchich had originally intended to organize a music festival featuring Indigenous women musicians from Latin America but this plan was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On 22 October 2021, Sara Curruchich released her second studio album, Mujer Indigena.
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Sara Curruchich has stated that her biggest objective as a musician is to "share with girls and boys that we as Indigenous peoples exist" and that the history of indigenous peoples in Latin America does not revolve completely around the presence of Spanish colonists.
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An adamant supporter of equal rights for women, especially indigenous women, Sara Curruchich writes many songs about the experience of being discriminated against and mistreated for being a Kaqchikel woman.
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Sara Curruchich was the first person to win the MIAW Transformer Award, at the 2021 MTV Millennial Awards in Mexico City.
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Sara Curruchich was recognized for her fight for Indigenous women's equality.
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In interviews, Sara Curruchich has denounced the occupation of land by multinational corporations, as well as the attacks on and killings of indigenous leaders who work to resist it.