\u201cI wrote this song as a gift to myself as I try everyday to better understand who I am, my worth, my calling, and what I have to offer in this world<\/em>,\u201d lead singer Carolina Oliveros explains. \u201cIt\u2019s a healing proclamation to firmly believe in oneself and walk headstrong with the radiance we know shines deeply through our spirit. That revelation is something I had to summon yesterday, remember today, and will continue to honor tomorrow<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Combo Chimbita is the creative unity of Carolina Oliveros (vocals, guacharaca), Ni\u00f1o Lento es Fuego (guitar), Prince of Queens (bass, synthesizers) and Dilemastronauta (drums), all Rooted in Colombia and based in New York. Just like their 2019 album Ahomale<\/a><\/em>, IR\u00c9 <\/em>will be released via ANTI- Records, and will address \u201cthe anxieties of systemic racism, capitalist decadence, totalitarian governments and the attempted erasure of queer and trans people<\/em>\u201d through the band\u2019s signature psychedelic rock influenced cumbia. The writing of the album began in 2020 in the middle of Covid and Black Lives Matter protests, and ended in Puerto Rico where the band witnessed the \u201csuffocating complexities of the island’s imperialist tether to the U.S.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n IR\u00c9<\/em><\/a> <\/em>by Combo Chimbita, out on January 28 via ANTI- Records<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to \u201cYo Me Lo Merezco\u201d in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the midst of our era\u2019s anxieties, the New-Yorker Colombian band tries to find healing in its new video and upcoming album. Following \u201cMemoria\u201d, \u201cBabalawo\u201d and \u201cOya\u201d, \u201cYo Me Lo Merezco\u201d is the fourth and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[41118,41119,4762],"location":[7928],"yst_prominent_words":[8576,8995,8447,8933,9156,8435,8488,8543,38559],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96932"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=96932"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=96932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/combo-chimbita-ire-1010x1010.jpg\")
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