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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
"Buscando un Novio" WATCH: https://youtu.be/fokeuzQS4Ac LISTEN: https://ffm.to/un-novio
(March 18th, 2026) - Musician and social activist La Doña shares new single “Buscando un Novio.” The song is about being ready and open for love and features marimba band Son Rompe Pera. “Buscando un Novio” is the third taste of La Doña’s forthcoming album Corrientes following “Tus Besos” and “La Mentira y la Verdad.”
La Doña shares, “When people ask me how I came out to my parents, I always tell them that I wrote a song about it, hosted a giant music video premiere, and invited the whole family. When people ask me how I processed my breakup, I tell them about the diss track that I wrote and how I played it to him in his car. Point of the story is, whatever truths I need to tell, I am able to tell them through my songwriting. ‘Buscando un Novio’ is the littest way I could imagine to announce that I'm single and ready to date. I recorded this track with my dear friends from Son Rompe Pera during my residency at Women's Audio Mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin. It is a mix of cumbia, marimba, and tumbao, and epitomizes my electro-acoustic approach to blending folkloric instruments like the marimba with digital production. So anyways, looking for a novi, bang my line."
The forthcoming album 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.
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.”
La Doña will be playing her album release show in Berkley CA at the UC Theatre on May 15th. 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 “Buscando un Novia” now and stay tuned for more from La Doña coming soon. | 
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