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Today, Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Lido Pimienta shares with us the process and influences of her Grammy-nominated album, Miss Colombia,

and how her love of Afro-Columbian music, came to be.

When you hear Lido Pimienta's sound, you'll hear traces of traditional Colombian

instruments like the Tamora and the Maraca mixed with synth pop and electronic music.

It's an experimental sound that earned her 2016 album, La Papesa,

one of Canada's most prestigious awards, the Polaris Prize. Lido continued her tradition of weaving Colombian folk music with electronic sounds in Miss

Colombia. and Bayeinato that surrounded her as a child in Colombia.

Lido was born in the city of Barangia and grew up spending her time between that city and the quieter rural towns

along the Colombian Caribbean coast and while she's made it a

statement to incorporate Colombian musical traditions into her new album, it

wasn't always her music of choice.

As a kid Lido was drawn to rock and heavy metal.

She even played in a metal band when she was just 11.

But it was only after moving to Toronto, Canada when she was 19 that Lido reconnected with the sounds of her home country.

In Miss Colombia, Lido tackles the pain of womanhood and anti-blackness through which she describes as a series of cynical love letters to her

country of birth.

One song is titled, Pelo Kuku, a song written from the perspective of a young Afro-Columbian girl who getsirengue, traditionally sung exclusively by women.

The song is special to Lido because it's a collaboration

with the legendary Afro-Columbian group Sextetto Tabala, one of Lido's earliest

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