Queen of Latin Soul / Reina De la Cancion Latina (LP)

Queen of Latin Soul / Reina De la Cancion Latina (LP)There is something raw and disruptive about La Lupe and her modalities of performance, something that far exceeds tropes of so called hysteria and all the gendered and racial scripts that come along with it. Uncontrolled expression opens up new routes; it presses against obligatory composure. The boleros, boogaloos and salsas of Reina de la Cancin Latina contain lessons about love, about a willingness to stay alive, about what it means to push against

There is something raw and disruptive about La Lupe and her modalities of performance, something that far exceeds tropes of so-called hysteria and all the gendered and racial scripts that come along with it. Uncontrolled expression opens up new routes; it presses against obligatory composure.

The boleros, boogaloos and salsas of Reina de la Canción Latina contain lessons about love, about a willingness to stay alive, about what it means to push against the confines. Reina de la Canción Latina asks us to listen to La Lupe outside of a binary mode — to look a little deeper, to find her personhood and to search for flashes of freedom wherever we can.

Tracklist:

Side A
1 Amor Gitano
2 La Tirana
3 Aun
4 Tu Me Niegas
5 Negrura

Side B
1 Fever
2 Este Ritmo Sabroson
3 Busamba
4 Soy Sonerita
5 Mangulina Chismecito