How I Made It: La Doña

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Cecilia Peña-Govea who calls herself La Doña, grew up in the Mission District in San Francisco. She started playing music in her family's band at just seven years old. Now, she's blazing her own musical path and keeping the city she grew up in at the heart of her work. In her debut EP “Algo Nuevo” she touches on love, heartbreak, and rising rent. In this edition of our “How I Made It” series La Doña breaks down one of her new songs “Cuando Se Van” and talks about taking her fears and turning them into a powerful anthem for a gentrifying city.

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0:47.0	Today, one of our how I made it segments, with La Donya and the music she calls Vemeton, not reggaeton.
0:55.0	Today, one of our how I made it segments, with La Donya and the music she calls Vemeton, not reggaeton.
1:02.0	When Cecilia Bainiagorea makes music about San Francisco, she sings about earthquakes.
1:20.0	But she's not just talking about the earth shaking, she's also describing how her hometown is transforming before her eyes.
1:30.0	Cecilia, who calls herself La Donya, grew up in the mission in San Francisco.
1:37.0	And while she still lives there, many of the people she knows have left.
1:42.0	You look around and you can see physically, you know, all the stores are closing.
1:47.0	All of the people who had their tiendas or their puestas are all gone.
1:53.0	Half of your classmates can't afford to live here anymore.
2:00.0	La Donya was raised in a socially conscious household.
2:03.0	When she was seven years old, she began playing the trumpet in her family's band La Familla Bainiagorea.
2:17.0	They play at protests and rallies in the Bay, as well as at parties.
2:24.0	We offered music and all the demonstrations and all of the protests and all of the community events and took a very public stand in presenting our art as a gift.
2:43.0	The love that I have found in San Francisco comes from being such an integral part of, you know, a political and a cultural community.
2:51.0	And I found my place there through music and through playing with my family.
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