La Doña announces new EP 'Can't Eat Clout'

LA DOÑA ANNOUNCES NEW EP CAN'T EAT CLOUT DUE SEPTEMBER 15TH VIA TEXT ME RECORDS SHARES NEW SINGLE "PALOMA NO VUELVE AMAR" PERFORMING AT OUTSIDE LANDS THIS SUMMER 

La Doña by Thalia Gochez Can't Eat Clout PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://ffm.to/canteatclout "Paloma No Vuelve Amar" LISTEN: ffm.to/paloma- "Her songwriting…generates invention within traditional Latin forms; even her recorded music, despite its electronic flourishes, fizzes with embodied, improvisational energy” The New York Times Magazine “A distinct mixture of sounds, regional influences, and perspectives” The FADER "breathes and expands as a celebration of rhythm and resilience" NPR “La Doña is the S.F.-Born Musician for This Moment” SF Weekly (August 3, 2023) Today, La Doña returns to announce her upcoming EP Can't Eat Clout alongside the first single from the project, "Paloma No Vuelve Amar." Can’t Eat Clout portrays a young femme artist falling in love with herself, her lover, and her art. It maps the rise and descent of these three love stories in an electrifying journey that weaves in and out of genres, incorporating La Doña’s expertise in cumbia, salsa, oldies and reggaeton. The album promotes the amalgam of musical traditions with the contemporary movements of hyphy and reggaeton, showcasing stylistic proclivities birthed from the soil of the Bay Area.  In keeping with the themes of memory and family, La Doña's first single of 2023, "Paloma No Vuelve Amar," tells the story of a fictional young woman named Paloma, who has escaped the bloodthirsty grasp of the music industry, returning home to grieve her reputation, career, and relationship. This cumbia infused track empowers the vociferation of the self-destructive homecoming, noting Paloma’s descent into drunkenness and partying, as well as the return of her voice. With a rumba break carved out in the middle of the song, La Doña provides listeners a chance to experience the message “Paloma no vuelve a amar,” or "Paloma will not love again" with the empowered improvisation to fill in the cracks that only heartbreak leaves. La Doña will also be performing at Outside Lands next weekend as well as Live Out Fest in Mexico this October. Can’t Eat Clout is filled with the contributions of her childhood collaborators and friends Naomi Garcia, Tano Brock, Savannah Harris and Ruben Sandoval, her father, Miguel Govea, producers Adeyemi and Dreww Banga, and home girl and Bay Area Rapper Tia Nomore. The album comes accompanied by live sessions produced, directed and led by La Doña, as well as a libretto portraying the intimate story of the EP alongside musical transcriptions by Miguel Govea, illustrated by Suavecita Press’ Alyssa Aviles. Can’t Eat Clout asserts La Doña’s mastery as a composer and director and presents themes of creative-liberty, anticapitalism, and community resilience. La Doña has steadily become an unequivocal artist to watch. She was chosen as one of YouTube’s Foundry Artists, was awarded the 2020 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Mini-Commission, and performed at Tecate’s “El Patio” and Redbull’s “EEUU de Bass.” She also released her aforementioned EP, Algo Nuevo, which was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the 6 best albums of 2020, and one of the standout tracks from the project, “Quién Me La Paga” was the first of The New York Times Magazine’s “19 Songs that Matter Now." La Doña's 2022 single "Penas Con Pan" was also recently featured in former-President Barack Obama's new 2023 playlist. Listen to "Paloma No Vuelve Amar" above and stay tuned for more from La Doña coming soon.

About La Doña: La Doña, born Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea in San Francisco, California, is a solo reggaeton singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The Chicana artist began her career at age 7 playing trumpet, and later strings and percussion in her family’s conjunto. She also played in a youth salsa band and a Balkan fusion band before synthesizing her unique upbringing in her original compositions. La Doña combines her deep roots in Latin folk traditions like corridos and rumba with the propulsive modern sounds of reggaeton, cumbia, and hip hop.  La Doña coined the term “Femmeton” to describe her auto-referential songs about love, sex, gentrification and the radical joys of being a queer brown woman in the Bay Area. An activist and educator, she holds her community close- her father, childhood friends, and partner layer live instrumentation, intimate harmonies and driving percussion over a thick reggaeton beat. Influenced by local muralismo and hyphy sensibilities just as much as global diasporas and climate catastrophes, La Doña’s catalogue is eclectic, fresh, and urgent. When La Doña is not on domestic or international tours, she is teaching youth about Afro-diasporic musics in San Francisco and Oakland, and composing songs to support the liberation of third-world peoples. As a young, queer Latina, La Doña is concerned with representing stories not often told in the mainstream music industry and providing amplification and audience to other young artists of color.   La Doña was chosen as one of YouTube’s Foundry Artists (2019) and she has performed recently at Lollapalooza and Format Fest. Her song, “Quién Me La Paga” was the first of the New York Times Magazine’s “19 Songs that Matter Now,” for 2020, and her EP, Algo Nuevo, was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the 6 best albums of 2020. La Doña was awarded the 2021 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant, and is the recipient of the California Arts Council Creative Corps Fellowship for ‘23/’24. She continues to make music and is slated to release her next EP in the Fall of 2023.

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