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“Like people will wear the shirts but not really listen to the music. It felt only slightly cocky, but then he said something inexcusable. He hadn’t said anything inappropriate, but he was making way more conversation than one needed to order tacos. I was on the other side of the one-room taco shop, watching while he was being friendly with the cute punky girl behind the register, a young Latina woman in a Misfits t-shirt. He was a tall white guy with brown hair, wearing a baseball cap. He was “practically fresh off the bus from Virginia.” I know because I heard him say so. “That's the best that can happen.He hadn’t been in L.A. It was the soundtrack to my life all through the pandemic,’” she said. “In every city that I go to, and on every platform that I visit or that I comment on, people are telling me the same thing: ‘Your album helped me all throughout the pandemic. Plus, releasing the record while millions of people were isolating at home provided an opportunity for listeners to sit with the music more than they might have otherwise. Pimienta said they considered pushing the album back, but she took inspiration from acts like Enya, who never relied on touring. Of course, when Pimienta and her label, Anti-, set the April 17, 2020, release date for Miss Colombia, they didn’t realize a pandemic would bring live music to a standstill for months. “When I'm really old and I look back at my catalog, I want to be able to be proud of it and leave a legacy behind.” “The goal for me on every album and everything that I do is, how can I be better? How can I be more intentional? How can I be more present in what I do?” she said. With Miss Colombia, which Pimienta intended to present as a story with a beginning, middle and end, the artist pushed herself sonically and vocally. Pimienta followed it up with last year’s Miss Colombia, which expands her hybridized sound even further, with Pimienta citing influences ranging from Canadian electronic act the Halluci Nation (formerly A Tribe Called Red), Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq and rapper Cardi B.
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The bilingual Latinx singer’s breakthrough came in 2016 with the release of La Papessa, a groundbreaking mashup of electro-pop and cumbia that won the Polaris Prize for Canadian album of the year. “I had nothing to lose because the expectations of whatever I did were so low that I might as well just do whatever makes me happy,” she said.Įventually, in her teenage years, Pimienta’s mother caught on and began supporting her artistic pursuits. Instead of caving to the pressure, Pimienta said the resistance motivated her to work harder and embrace her own artistic vision. "When I started expressing myself artistically, then it was a matter of, ‘I hope she doesn't end up a drug addict.’ But it was never like, ‘She was meant to be an artist.’ … People just thought that I was a strange kid: ‘Hopefully one day she'll get a real job.’” The worry was that, 'We want Lido to hopefully not end up a lesbian, because she never likes to wear dresses,’” said Pimienta, who identifies as queer. “When you're a girl, the expectation is that you're going to grow up and marry a rich husband or something, especially in Latin America. 3) at Express Live with Sylvan Esso, also felt external pressures to follow a more traditional path. Pimienta, who performs tonight (Wednesday, Nov. So it was a very, very strange way of growing up.” “I would go from being in the desert with my Indigenous family, who can't even speak Spanish, to going to the city and going to a school that's named after a former U.S. “I knew that I had a voice, but it wasn't always cherished and understood, because people would just see me as a strange little girl that goes and lives in the desert,” she said. Before immigrating to Canada, Pimienta, who identifies with both the Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Wayuu communities, had trouble making sense of her dual heritage. Pimienta’s realization of her own talent didn’t set her on a direct path to a career in music. “But that's when I knew that I had a gift with my voice.” “My father, whenever we had a blackout in our hometown in Barranquilla, Colombia, he would gather all the kids and neighbors, and he would have me and my sisters sing ABBA songs, which is really strange, because in that region of Colombia, you don't really be listening to ABBA,” Pimienta said recently by phone. From the age of 4, Lido Pimienta knew there was something special about her voice.