La Doña returns with her latest single “Buscando un Novio,” a vibrant and deeply personal release featuring Son Rompe Pera. The track marks the third preview of her forthcoming album Corrientes, following the earlier releases “Tus Besos” and “La Mentira y la Verdad,” and continues to showcase her boundary-pushing fusion of traditional and contemporary sounds.
At its core, “Buscando un Novio” is a playful yet honest declaration of openness to love, delivered through La Doña’s signature storytelling lens. The track blends cumbia, marimba, and tumbao rhythms into an infectious, electro-acoustic soundscape, reflecting her ability to merge folkloric instrumentation with modern production techniques. Recorded during her residency at Women’s Audio Mission in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, the collaboration with Son Rompe Pera brings a rich, organic energy that elevates the single’s celebratory tone.
Speaking on the release, La Doña shares: “When people ask me how I came out to my parents, I always tell them that I wrote a song about it, hosted a giant music video premiere, and invited the whole family. When people ask me how I processed my breakup, I tell them about the diss track that I wrote and how I played it to him in his car. Point of the story is, whatever truths I need to tell, I am able to tell them through my songwriting. ‘Buscando un Novio’ is the littest way I could imagine to announce that I’m single and ready to date… It epitomizes my electro-acoustic approach to blending folkloric instruments like the marimba with digital production.”
Her upcoming album Corrientes—which translates to “currents”—draws from a wide spectrum of Afro-Indigenous musical traditions, including cumbia, rumba, bachata, merengue, and son jarocho. Shaped by extensive travels across Latin America, La Doña collaborated with cultural bearers throughout Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States, weaving together a project rooted in connection, heritage, and resistance.
“Love, pain, beauty, healing, resistance, joy, and loss are all captured in this album Corrientes,” she explains. “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… In this moment of suppression and catastrophe, Corrientes is an ethnography, a ceremony, a revolution.”
To celebrate the release, La Doña will host an album launch show at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on May 15, bringing the project’s energy to a live audience.
The forthcoming album builds on the success of her acclaimed debut Los Altos de la Soledad and EPs Can’t Eat Clout and Algo Nuevo, as well as standout singles like “Penas Con Pan,” featured on Barack Obama’s annual playlist, and “Quién Me La Paga,” which earned recognition from The New York Times as one of their “19 Songs That Matter Now.” In recent years, she has further solidified her reputation as a rising force, touring internationally alongside Cuco, Helado Negro, Durand Jones & The Indications, and Kaina.
With “Buscando un Novio,” La Doña continues to carve out a distinct space where culture, identity, and sound converge—setting the stage for what promises to be her most expansive and impactful project to date with Corrientes.
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