Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco

Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco is a Huilliche educator, poet, researcher, and traditional singer from Chiloé Island, Chile.

Her performance of traditional indigenous music of southern South America as part of the musical group Armazón has been preserved in two recordings: Gulkantün, canto ceremonial williche, which focuses on traditional Huilliche songs and is sung in Mapudungun, and Tributo a los Selkʼnam, which focuses on music of the Selkʼnam people.{{Cite web|date=2020-09-03|title=Canto huilliche de Neddiel Muñoz es emblema de la 19 versión de Fitich|url=https://www.fitich.cl/inicio/canto-huilliche-de-neddiel-munoz/|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Fitich|language=es-ES}} The recordings were based on research Muñoz conducted among communities in the southern Patagonian archipelagos.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/775302627|title=Island songs : a global repertoire|date=2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Baldacchino, Godfrey., Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (Project)|isbn=978-0-8108-8178-5|location=Lanham, Md.|oclc=775302627}} Her recordings are considered a dialogue between the elders of the Huilliche people and the younger generation, with the traditional songs fused with rock styles and traditional instruments played alongside modern ones.{{Cite book|last=Garrido, Waldo, 1962-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1056202619|title=Música de Chiloé : folklore, syncretism, and cultural development in a Chilean aquapelago|others=Bendrups, Dan,, Hayward, Philip|date=3 December 2018|isbn=978-1-4985-2886-3|location=Lanham|oclc=1056202619}}

She also leads the band Anklaje, which performs indigenous music that, Muñoz says, "was forgotten for many years, but is reclaiming its place and the respect that it always should have been given."{{Cite web|date=2019-09-25|title=El grupo musical Anklaje se presentará en el Festival Imesur 2019|url=https://www.soychile.cl/Chiloe/Cultura/2019/09/25/617040/El-grupo-musical-Anklaje-se-presentara-en-el-Festival-Imesur-2019.aspx|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Soy Chile}} She has worked to further spread knowledge of this music through presenting at international festivals{{Cite news|date=2015-08-29|title=La palabre délie les langues|language=fr|work=Ouest France|url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/douarnenez-29100/festival-de-cinema-de-douarnenez-la-palabre-delie-les-langues-video-3647712}} and collaborating on preservation projects with the General Council of Caciques of Chiloé.{{Cite web|title=NEDDIEL MUÑOZ MILLALONCO|url=https://www.alsurdelmundo.cl/PO/ASESORES_E_INVESTIGADORES/Entries/2010/1/21_NEDDIEL_MUNOZ_MILLALONCO.html|access-date=2020-09-17|website=www.alsurdelmundo.cl}} In 2020, her piece "Kitral" won her second place in the folk music category of the Concurso de Composición Musical Luis Advis, a composition contest in Chile.{{Cite web |date=2020-12-21 |title=Anuncian a los ganadores del Concurso de Composición Musical Luis Advis |url=https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2020/12/21/anuncian-a-los-ganadores-del-concurso-de-composicion-musical-luis-advis/ |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=El Mostrador |language=es}}

Muñoz has also written poetry{{Cite book|last=Brooks, Zelda Irene.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/644312989|title=Carlos Alberto Trujillo : un poeta del sur de Sudamérica|date=1992|publisher=Scripta Humanistica|isbn=9780916379889|location=Potomac, Md., U.S.A.|oclc=644312989}} and worked as a children's educator and as an actress, appearing in the Silvio Caiozzi film And Suddenly the Dawn in 2017 and the film Sorcery in 2023.{{Cite web|title=Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco, actriz Huichille que representa a Chile en la nominación de los Premios Oscar con "… Y de Pronto el Amanecer" de Silvio Caiozzi.|url=http://ydeprontoelamanecer.cl/noticias/entrevista_neddiel_munoz.pdf|website=Y de Pronto el Amanecer}}{{Cite web |title=Brujería, de Christopher Murray: estreno en salas |url=https://www.beethovenfm.cl/evento/brujeria-de-christopher-murray-estreno-en-salas/ |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=UC Radio Beethoven |language=es}} In her review of Sorcery for the British Film Institute, Leila Latif described her performance as "darkly enigmatic".{{Cite web|title=Sorcery review: revenge is best served nuanced|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/sorcery-richly-rendered-story-anticolonial-score-settling-19th-century-chile|website=Sight and Sound}}