About Kelela:
Throughout her globally revered, boundary-pushing career, Kelela has established a lane of her own in R&B and electronic music. On her long-awaited third album, new avatar, the singer/songwriter (through the versatility of the guitar) challenges perceptions of these genres, while weaving together fragments of lived experiences to shape a world of connection and resilience during times of unrest.
The songs journey through Black femme rage, joy as resistance, Gotham City-esque dystopia, misogynoir, romantic tension, and more. It’s anchored by production that demands a broader rethink about alternative, rock and indie music.
Kelela’s defiant nature has propelled her so far already — from her hometown of Washington, D.C to world stages. In 2013, she released her debut mixtape, Cut 4 Me. She continued solidifying her revolutionary R&B sound with 2015’s Hallucinogen EP, with The New York Times naming its single, “Rewind,” one of the “25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going”. By 2017, she released her electric debut album Take Me Apart (which was followed by 2018’s TAKE ME A_PART, THE REMIXES), building upon her intimate storytelling.
After a nearly five-year hiatus, she returned in 2023 with her groundbreaking second album, Raven, and its critically-acclaimed counterpart, RAVE:N, The Remixes in 2024. Raven has been hailed as one of the ‘Best Albums of 2023’ by Pitchfork, Billboard, Vulture, Variety, and more, while the remixes solidified her as a leader in the dance music space.
In 2025, Kelela showcased yet another innovative side of her artistry with her live album In The Blue Light, which hit #5 on the Contemporary Jazz chart and #20 on the Jazz Albums chart. Now, with new avatar, Kelela displays the masterful intention she puts into forming new sonic cityscapes. But don’t confuse it with escapism: “I don’t want the music to be a distraction from what’s really going on in the world; I want it to help you get into it.”
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
About Lido Pimienta:
As much as an iconoclast, Lido Pimienta is a healer. The trailblazing GRAMMY-nominated multidisciplinary artist —with a practice spanning music, performance, and visual art— has been expanding sonically since 2010. She broke through on 2017’s La Papessa, an experiment in alternative electronica that beat out the likes of Leonard Cohen and Feist for the coveted Polaris Prize. Firmly recognized as the cream of the indie crop, the Barranquilla-born artist now based out of Toronto made her name with a sound rooted in ancestral reconnection by way of the Afro-Indigenous rhythms of her native Colombia, and a DIY punk mentality forged with the tools of electropop.
With 2020’s Miss Colombia, she sharpened cumbia, electropop, dembow, and chamber music into a cohesive and profound reflection on identity, beauty, and the realities of life as a Caribbean woman with Wayuu roots. After her Miss Colombia tour was postponed, Pimienta dug deep into classical music. The result was Gregorian-chant inspired La Belleza, a decolonization of the European classical space born of her ballet composition Lux Aeterna, a historic collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller that made Pimienta the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet.
But what lies on the other side of the aesthete exploring beauty? Enter Caribenya, her new album coming out July 17. Initially conceived as a B-Side to La Belleza, the record took on a life of its own, a full collection steeped in everything Pimienta has always been about: resistance, connection, and a desire to push sonic boundaries.
