Chiquis, música Mexicana’s self-proclaimed “Abeja Reina,” is again with a brand new album launched Thursday, “Flores En Mi Alma.”
The three-time Latin Grammy winner and eldest daughter of música Mexicana royalty Jenni Rivera, Chiquis finds a typical floor between meditation and protest.
Via morning affirmations, and a guided mediation observe referred to as “Soy Luz,” Chiquis seeks to assuage her listeners earlier than getting actual in regards to the nation’s ongoing immigration disaster. On songs like “Pa’ Mi Gente,” she tells the tales of immigrant staff and expresses their significance over the resounding guiros of cumbia folclórica.
Equally on “Somos,” she sings “No hay frontera que nos quedan grandes,” asserting that everybody belongs to Mom Earth.
Final January, De Los caught up with Chiquis following her Diamantes tour cease on the Wiltern. She defined that she was prepared to change up her sound and work out how música Mexicana can lend itself to meditation.
“I must take a step to the aspect to type of reconnect differently with my music. I would like a breather. I need to get impressed once more,” mentioned Chiquis beforehand to the Instances. “There’s a shift coming.”
Within the matter of some months, she cracked the code.
Pivoting away from her common banda influences, “Flores En Mi Alma” as an alternative channels components of cumbia, reggae and R&B into the sounds of latest música Mexicana. The eight-track report additionally incorporates a number of low frequencies — most of that are too low to be heard — meant to have interaction listeners’ chakras.
Her earlier report, “Diamantes,” was all about trusting herself and embracing her resilience. As somebody who has spent the vast majority of her life within the public eye — whether or not on early 2000s actuality tv, on her podcast “Chiquis and Chill” — the album displays a brand new degree of consciousness and maturity.
“I’ve had a whole lot of stress in my life from being the daughter of Jenni Rivera and all of the BS that has occurred after that,” mentioned Chiquis earlier this 12 months. “The thought of ‘Diamantes,’ and being a diamond made all of it come collectively.
“I’m a diamond and all of us are,” she provides. “We’re nonetheless right here it doesn’t matter what we do.”
