LIdo pimienta

Lido Pimienta is an iconoclast who creates music and fine art drawn from her experience as a Caribbean woman from Colombia. Her 2020 release, Miss Colombia, fuses lush electronic synths and pop. Her latest album, La Belleza, is yet another huge leap in creativity for Pimienta – despite her having no classical training, the record features an entire orchestra and choir. Sonically inspired by European classical music and Gregorian chant, Pimienta created La Belleza with Ableton, her MIDI controller and producer Owen Pallett (Sampha, Lana Del Rey, and the Oscar-nominated Her soundtrack).  Pimienta was excited by how this music felt like the opposite of Miss Colombia. “The thought of making ‘classical music’ never occurred to me before, but making experimental electronica on Miss Colombia was not premeditated either,” Pimienta says. “All I create is a natural evolution of my curiosity and stubbornness.