Photo credit Maria del Rio
"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
LISTEN: Corrientes ffm.to/ladona-corrientes
WATCH: “Equinoccio (feat. Corino Santos)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHCKykFFNTg
(April 29th, 2026) - Musician and social activist La Doña releases new album Corrientes. 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.”
Alongside the album La Doña drops a new music video for focus track “Equinoccio (feat. Corino Santos).” La Doña shares, “‘Equinoccio’ is a Bolero that features the sacred Santeria drum Batá and a soaring string arrangement by an all-female, San Francisco-based string section. ‘Equinoccio’ paints the picture of two star-crossed lovers caught in the vice-grip of a love that will endure the change of the seasons, and enormous distance. La Doña utilizes booming 808 and synthesizers to explore rupture from traditional bolero instrumentation, relying rhythmically on the batá and, harmonically, nestled between lush violins and haunting vocal harmonies. It is a plea to her lover, and a plea to time itself, to liberate her from the warm embrace of a toxic love. The music video produced by Naomi Pasmanick features an all female surf crew as La Doña pleads her case to the wind, the mountain, and the ocean.”
The album includes previous singles, “Quémame,” “Buscando un Novio,” “Tus Besos” and “La Mentira y la Verdad.” 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.
La Doña will be playing her album release show in Berkley CA at the UC Theatre on May 15th and is hosting a vinyl singing pop-up on May 2nd at Discodelics in San Francisco.
The new 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 Corrientes above and find full album details below. | 
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