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"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
“Tus Besos” WATCH: https://youtu.be/y2a-_w4xRPU LISTEN: https://ffm.to/tus-besos
(February 25th, 2026) - Musician and social activist La Doña returns to announce her new album Corrientes. Corrientes means currents. Just as water flows through, shapes, and blesses the land, Corrientes the album was born on a current of transcultural connection and celebration. The album is a deep engagement with Afro-Indigenous musical traditions including cumbia, rumba, bachata, merengue, and son jarocho.
Alongside the album announcement La Doña shares a new single “Tus Besos.” Speaking about the song La Doña says, “Tus Besos is a corrido tumbado about finding the person who makes every moment feel like a blissful eternity.” The song combines lush bolero style harmonies with the bright force of banda and corrido. “Tus Besos” also comes alongside a visualizer where La Doña couples her unique approach to regional Mexican music with a steamy queer love story that plays out across a noche de parranda at the bailes in deep-east Oakland. “Tus Besos” visuals feature Louie el Ser and work by Amelia Alemayehu, Rose D'Amato, Theo Schear, and Bobby Gordon. The new single follows “La Mentira y La Verdad,” a song rooted in bachata offering La Doña’s own assertion of truth-telling in the face of the censorship and repression of artists in our current political climate.
La Doña is also announcing her album release show in Berkley CA at the UC Theatre on May 15th.
Over the past year, La Doña traveled throughout Latin America, collaborating with cultural bearers across Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States. Speaking about the album, La Doña shares, “Love, pain, beauty, healing, resistance, joy, and loss are all captured in this album Corrientes, which celebrates trans-border solidarity and collaboration. From collaborations with Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Son Rompe Pera, Rumba All-Stars, and more, you will hear seeds of culture as they have been carried across time and space on the winds of human resilience and self-determination. In this moment of suppression and catastrophe, Corrientes is an ethnography, a ceremony, a revolution.” The forthcoming album follows La Doña’s acclaimed debut Los Altos de la Soledad and celebrated EPs Can’t Eat Clout and Algo Nuevo, as well as standout singles including “Penas Con Pan,” featured on President Obama’s playlist, and “Quién Me La Paga,” which earned praise from The New York Times as one of their “19 Songs That Matter Now.” In recent years, La Doña has cemented herself as a vital artist to watch, touring internationally with Cuco, Helado Negro, Durand Jones & The Indications, and Kaina.
Listen to “Tus Besos” now and stay tuned for more from La Doña coming soon. | 
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