Daymé Arocena: Straight Outta Havana
Latino USA
Futuro Media and PRX
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Daymé Arocena is a Cuban singer, songwriter and composer who left the island looking for artistic freedom. Arocena has been described as one of the most explosive and dynamic voices today. In her latest album "Alkemi" she bridges her knowledge of jazz, Afro-Cuban percussion, and even a little 90s R&B. These last few years have been a time of intense transformation for Arocena, so on this episode of Latino USA, the 32-year-old tells us how her upbringing has helped her create music that doesn’t fit easily into a box.
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| 0:00.0 | The first person that has to see beauty inside my body is me, which is not a simple thing to do, |
| 0:15.0 | leaving the society that I had to live. |
| 0:18.2 | We decided to make three music videos |
| 0:21.1 | to represent what I really needed when I was younger. |
| 0:25.0 | The first thing I said is, I want to show up. |
| 0:28.0 | I want to be the girl that they like. |
| 0:31.0 | I want to be the girl that people say is beautiful. I want to be the girl that when they walk down the street they look at. |
| 0:40.0 | I never saw that on a music video. I never saw that in a music video I never saw that in a TV show but I have heard many songs |
| 0:48.8 | naming Negra I'm in Agrieta I'm in Agrieta I L Lana-Grida is never there. |
| 0:55.0 | I want Lana-Egra there. |
| 1:00.0 | From Futura and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inu Hosa. |
| 1:06.0 | Today, straight out of Havana, Daimé Arosena is a Cuban singer and songwriter whose last few years have been an intense time of transformation. |
| 1:27.0 | In 2019, she left Cuba looking for artistic freedom. |
| 1:31.2 | Just a few months later, she found herself adjusting to a new life in Canada. |
| 1:35.0 | Far from her family, she felt isolated and it started to change her lifelong |
| 1:40.6 | relationship with music. |
| 1:43.0 | That's because Daimé is a jazz prodigy |
| 1:46.2 | who grew up in the Cuban conservatory system. |
| 1:49.2 | And she's been described as one of the most explosive |
| 1:52.1 | and dynamic voices today. |
| 1:55.0 | In her new album, Alkemy, she's partnered up with the Puerto Rican producer |
| 1:59.9 | Eduardo Cabra, previously Visitante of Cayetrese, Cabra has earned a groundbreaking 24 Latin |
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