Musician and social activist La Doña returns with the announcement of her forthcoming album, Corrientes — a deeply rooted exploration of Afro-Indigenous musical traditions including cumbia, rumba, bachata, merengue, and son jarocho. The title, meaning “currents,” reflects the album’s flow of transcultural connection, celebration, and the movement of music across borders.
Alongside the album announcement, La Doña shares her new single “Tus Besos”, which she describes as “a corrido tumbado about finding the person who makes every moment feel like a blissful eternity.” The track blends lush bolero harmonies with the vibrant energy of banda and corrido, accompanied by a visualizer that tells a steamy queer love story unfolding across a noche de parranda in deep-east Oakland. Visual collaborators include Louie el Ser, Amelia Alemayehu, Rose D’Amato, Theo Schear, and Bobby Gordon. The single follows the politically charged “La Mentira y La Verdad,” rooted in bachata and asserting truth-telling in the face of censorship and repression.
La Doña also announces her album release show at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, CA on May 15th.
Over the past year, La Doña traveled across Latin America, collaborating with cultural bearers in Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the U.S. Speaking on the album, she shares:
“Love, pain, beauty, healing, resistance, joy, and loss are all captured in this album Corrientes, which celebrates trans-border solidarity and collaboration. From collaborations with Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Son Rompe Pera, Rumba All-Stars, and more, you will hear seeds of culture as they have been carried across time and space on the winds of human resilience and self-determination. In this moment of suppression and catastrophe, Corrientes is an ethnography, a ceremony, a revolution.”
Corrientes follows La Doña’s acclaimed debut Los Altos de la Soledad, her EPs Can’t Eat Clout and Algo Nuevo, and standout singles including “Penas Con Pan” — featured on President Obama’s playlist — and “Quién Me La Paga,” praised by The New York Times as one of their “19 Songs That Matter Now.” In recent years, La Doña has toured internationally with Cuco, Helado Negro, Durand Jones & The Indications, and Kaina, establishing herself as a vital voice in contemporary Latinx music.
Listen to “Tus Besos” now and stay tuned for more from La Doña as Corrientes unfolds.
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