Lido Pimienta

A Colombian singer/songwriter whose experimental mixture of Afro-Indigenous traditions, Latin rhythms, and left-field electronic pop helped establish her in her adopted home of Toronto, Lido Pimienta gained widespread notice in 2017 when her second album, La Papessa, won Canada's coveted Polaris Music Prize. That it was entirely self-released and sung in Spanish gave it even more distinction among previous winners. She soon signed with the Anti- label which reissued La Papessa and then released her similarly ambitious follow-up, Miss Colombia, in early 2020. A native of Barra...