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Singer, songwriter, accordionist

Mexican vocalist and songwriter Julieta Venegas has inspired various comparisons with non-Mexican artists, musical and otherwise.

According to Ernesto Lechner of Interview, she has been called "Mexico's PJ Harvey." For Tim Padgett of Time International, she is "the Frida Kahlo of rock 'n' roll." "Her music has been compared with that of Tori Amos, Fiona Apple and Bjork in its bold creativity," wrote Fred Shuster of the Los AngelesDaily News. Venegas has worked in styles, principally alternative rock and pop-rock, that have been more popular outside of Mexico than in the singer's home country.

Yet beneath these foreign influences, Venegas's music has displayed a characteristically Mexican seriousness—due at least partly to her own acccordion playing. The accordion, she told Padgett, enhanced "my personal way of writing songs.

Mexican music has to celebrate the sadness we live with here."

Julieta Venegas Percevault was born