La Doña by Marìa del Rio
“Mejor Que Matarte” LISTEN: https://music.empi.re/mejorquematarte WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxfEeYweW8
"La Doña’s vision has paid off" Rolling Stone
"generates invention within traditional Latin forms...fizzes with embodied, improvisational energy” The New York Times Magazine
"Breathes and expands as a celebration of rhythm and resilience" NPR
“La Doña is the S.F.-Born Musician for This Moment” SF Weekly
(July 12th, 2024) - Today, La Doña announces her forthcoming debut album Los Altos de la Soledad due September 6th. Alongside the announcement La Doña shares a first taste of the project with a new single and video “Mejor Que Matarte” featuring La Doña saying goodbye to a lover and partying with her friends against the Bay Area’s coastline and in hot and sweaty dance clubs. The news and new single also coincides with the announcement of additional North American tour dates including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago and Austin.
Los Altos De La Soledad chronicles La Doña’s sensuous journey through love, migration, and political awakening. Created with support from the California Arts Council’s Creative Corps Fellowship, these stories are told through corrido, bolero, son jarocho, cumbia and reggaeton, and pay homage to La Doña’s upbringing in San Francisco’s Mission District. The album features international artists and poets including Jeronimo Gonzales, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Qing Qi and Discos Resaca Collective. Recorded in Oakland and Mexico City with a full orchestra, Los Altos de la Soledad integrates field recordings, spoken word and soaring arrangements to transport the listener through landscapes of infatuation, betrayal, heartbreak, resistance, and hope.
Speaking on the album’s conception she shares, “Los Altos de la Soledad is a collection of boleros, cumbias, corridos con banda, and reggaeton that captures the diverse realities of life in the Bay Area. It tells a story of forced migration, of falling in and out of love, of standing up against genocide, of fighting to maintain space in a as a brown girl in an inhospitable homeland. The album features spoken word poetry, student interviews, and field recordings from demonstrations from all over the world. It is a snapshot of our life in the Bay as migrants, activists, lovers, homegirls, and sisters. A true offering of the influences of diverse legacies in the Bay Area, Los Altos de la Soledad weaves son, hyphy, cumbia rebajada, bolero, banda, and reggaeton into a quilted representation of transnational resistance and solidarity.”
Over the last few years, La Doña has steadily become an unequivocal artist to watch. La Doña was chosen as one of YouTube’s Foundry Artists (2019) and she has performed at Lollapalooza and Outside Lands music festivals. Los Altos De La Soledad follows her previous celebrated EP’s Can’t Eat Clout and Algo Nuevo as well as her singles "Penas Con Pan," which was featured in President Obama's playlist and “Quién Me La Paga,” which received praise from The New York Times in their “19 Songs that Matter Now.” Both EP’s were also selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as two of the best albums of 2020 and 2023, respectively. La Doña was awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant in 2021 and was the recipient of the YBCA's Guaranteed Income Program in 2022. La Doña is a 2023-2024 apprentice in zapateado with the California Alliance for Traditional Arts, and recipient of the East Bay Fund for Artists Grant ‘23. She is a fellow for California Creative Corps 2024 and has toured internationally with artists including Cuco, Helado Negro, Durand Jones & the Indications and Kaina.
Pre-save/order Los Altos de la Soledad, check out “Mejor Que Matarte” above and stay tuned for more from La Doña coming soon.
Upcoming Live Dates
Tickets: https://ladona415.com/live.html
7/21 - Stanford, CA @ Frost Amphitheater 9/7 - Chicago, IL @ Taste of Chicago 10/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Paramount 10/20 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah 10/31 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza 11/1 - Portland, OR @ The Get Down 11/12 - Minneapolis, MN @ Parkway Theater 11/13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club 11/16 - Iowa City, IA @ Hancher’s Strass Hall / Club Hancher 11/19 - Dallas, TX @ Limbo Room at Ruins 11/20 - Austin, TX @ Empire Control FRoom 11/21 - San Antonio, TX @ Jaime’s Place | 
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