La Doña Presents Her New Album, 'Corrientes' Live in Studio

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Singer, songwriter and San Francisco native Cecilia Peña-Govea – better known as La Doña – joins us in studio with her band for a special live performance on the heels of the release of her new album, Corrientes. It’s her most ambitious and comprehensive project yet. She traveled to five countries and worked with 40 musicians to compose the 16-track album which spans a variety of genres including cumbia, reggaeton, ranchera, electronic, merengue, and son jarocho, a folk music style that originated in the Mexican state of Veracruz. La Doña joins us to perform, talk about her new album and her Bay Area roots. Guests: Cecilia Peña-Govea, singer who performs as La Doña Amanda Magaña, vocals and congas Naomi Pasmanick, sax and vocals Miguel Govea, accordion, vocals and guitar Camilo Landau, guitar and vocals Ayla Davila, bass and vocals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	I am excited this morning. San Francisco Legend La Donia has been a mainstay on our home's
1:10.6	playlist for years. And I have been wanting to do the show for a long time.
1:15.7	Here we are. We are doing it. Cecilia Pena Govea, better known as La Donia is here in the comments here at KQED with her band this morning, and they're playing a show just for me me or I suppose it's actually for all of us.
1:28.1	So Ladoia, you want to take it away? Start us off with some music. me love to give me That's the world was to do. That's the do you know Myrault and her
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