Lido Pimienta Announces First Album in Five Years, Shares New Song “Mango”: Listen

Lido Pimienta has introduced her first new album in 5 years, La Belleza. The follow-up to 2020’s Miss Colombia arrives Might 16 by way of Anti-. The Colombian and Canadian musician’s third studio document is led by the one “Mango,” which comes with a lyric video filmed in a humble courtyard. Take a look at the brand new tune beneath.

La Belleza follows Pimienta as she dips her toes into the enriching world of classical music. It was written by Pimienta and co-orchestrated with Owen Pallett. Regardless of not being classically educated, Pimienta felt compelled to attempt her hand on the style after falling in love with the Luboš Fišer soundtrack for the film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.

“The considered making ‘classical music’ by no means occurred to me earlier than, however making experimental electronica on Miss Colombia was not premeditated both,” mentioned Pimienta in a press launch. “All I create is a pure evolution of my curiosity and stubbornness.”

Examine “Eso Que Tú Haces” in “The 22 Best Songs by Latinx Artists in 2020” and revisit Matthew Ismael Ruiz’s essay concerning the liberating qualities of Lido Pimienta’s document in “The Year in Latin Music.”