You’re so lucky that you have me…
…To tell you about singer/songwriter Lido Pimienta. Because now you can spend part of your day immersed in her STUPID GORGEOUS world.
Not to be all “ooh look at the ~ethnicity~ of it all” but Lido’s work is so wholly saturated in her Afro-Colombian heritage, it almost feels like her music is an ancestral duty. The richness and warmth of her voice extends to her instrumentation, her lyrics, her EE-MA-KEW-LIT aesthetic. It’s gonna go ahead and be a home run on all fronts for me.
Start by dancing to her track “Nada” by yourself in your room while making powerful eye contact with yourself in a mirror (trust me on this one). Then go watch/listen to “Eso Que Tu Haces” and cry at how beautiful the world can be.