Musicians
- Américo – Cumbia Chilena singer
- Tom Araya – singer/bassist for thrash metal band Slayer.
- Claudio Arrau – classical piano player.
- Germán Casas – 1960s singer.
- Beto Cuevas – lead singer from rock group La Ley
- Luis 'Lucho' Gatica – bolero singer.
- Eduardo Gatti – one of the leading composers of modern Chilean music.
- Jorge González – Controversial lead singer and songwriter of historic Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros
- Alberto Guerrero – Chilean–Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher
- Rodrigo González – Bassist and Singer of the German band die Ärzte.
- Myriam Hernández – popular music singer.
- Inti-Illimani – Pioneers of the nueva canción chilena movement and known communists and "pro-democracy" activists in exile during Pinochet dictatorship.
- Víctor Jara – internationally known Chilean folk singer and theatrical director, political activist and a communist.
- DJ Méndez – Urban music producer
- Leo Rey – Cumbia Chilena singer
- Dave McGraw - drummer for death metal band Cattle Decapitation.
- Chañaral Ortega-Miranda – contemporary composer
- Ángel Parra – folk musician (Nueva Canción); son of Violeta Parra.
- Isabel Parra – folk musician; daughter of Violeta Parra.
- Javiera Parra – lead singer from group Javiera y los Imposibles.
- Violeta Parra – internationally known Chilean folk singer.
- Quilapayún – nueva canción ensemble, supporters of Popular Unity (UP) coalition during presidency of Salvador Allende.
- Alejandro Silva – heavy metal guitar player.
- Clara Solovera – song writer. Born in Santiago 15 May 1909 – Died in Santiago on 27 January 1992.
- Esther Soré – 1940s singer. Born in Santiago on 27 May 1915 – Died in Santiago on 6 September 1996
- Francisca Valenzuela - singer and songwriter
- Verónica Villarroel – soprano.
- Ramón Vinay – tenor
- Ricardo Villalobos – minimal techno artist
- La Noche – Cumbia Chilena band
- Los Abandoned – Alternative rock band
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“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“How are we to know that a Dracula is a key-pounding pianist who lifts his hands up to his face, or that a bass fiddle is the doghouse, or that shmaltz musicians are four-button suit guys and long underwear boys?”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)