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From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA, I'm Maria Inojosa.

And today we bring you one of our how I made it segments with singer-songwriter Lido Bimienta.

When you hear Lido Bimienta's sound, you'll hear traces of traditional Colombian instruments like the tambora 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.

This year, Lido continues her tradition of weaving Colombian folk music with electronic sounds in her latest release, Miss Colombia.

The album pays owe to Afro-Columbia music like Buyerenge and Bayonato that surrounded her as a child in Colombia.

Lido was born in the city of Barranquia 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 Cucu, a song written from the perspective of a young Afro-Columbian girl who gets her hair straightened for the first time.

The song is arranged in the Afro-Columbian genre of Buyerenge, traditionally sung exclusively by women.

The song is special to Lido because it's a collaboration with the legendary Afro-Columbian group, Sexteto Tabalán, one of Lido's earliest musical influences.

In this segment of our How I Made It series, Lido Pimienta shares how her love for traditional Colombian music came to be and how she created a song she would have loved to have heard as a kid.

Growing up, I was a little bit of a rebel.

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