(2022)
Album: Mabanzo

“This one is gonna make me cry”, Juanita says. A way of healing through music, the song is a dream of freedom. Freedom dreamt from precolonial times, when Congo and Latin-America were untouched by European colonial violence. It is Juanita’s way of confronting this traumatic history and saying “you destroyed my kingdom”.

“This song is my heart. I poured all of it into it – my struggle, the painful history of Africa and the painful history of Latin America.”

“I am trying to bring peace. This thing, the past, that has created so much pain that we still have today. On the song I am dreaming of a better future, even if I am not part of it anymore”. Sueño translates to dream in English and captures the vision and the utopia that Juanita is singing about. But even though they can seem distant, dreams are powerful. You need to dream it to make it happen. “We are still... (continua)