Colombian-Canadian artist Lido Pimienta returns with her highly anticipated new album, La Belleza, released via ANTI- Records (outside Canada) and Fontana North (in Canada).
A bold and genre-defying statement, La Belleza is both sonically ambitious and emotionally intimate.
Blending sweeping European classical orchestration with experimental pop, Pimienta crafts an immersive soundscape that serves as a vessel for her most personal storytelling to date.
The album unfolds like a lyrical memoir, drawing on themes of motherhood, migration, identity, and beauty—not as an aesthetic, but as a powerful and painful process of transformation.
About the album by Lido:
“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.”
These experiences built up Pimienta’s confidence and drew her into the classical themes of ‘La Belleza’. “If no matter what style or genre of music I make, the result will always be relegated to the World Music aisle—in stores, in the algorithm—then why not create something no one would ever expect from a Caribbean woman?” Pimienta asked. “Why not make an album that completely defies those categories? What if I made an entirely orchestral record?”
There are nine movements in ‘La Belleza’, with “Ahora” following the initial overture. The song honors the ceremonies and history of Pimienta’s ancestors that go untold by the mainstream. “This is what the ancestors look for/ It is a ceremony for the remains/ We honor the remains/ It is the Wayuu ceremony,” Pimienta chants in Spanish over a blood-stirring orchestral arrangement. The indigenous home of her people, the Wayuu, was called Abya Yala before European mercenaries colonized it in the 1800s and re-named it Colombia. Technically, the people were never conquered but slowly pushed out of their lands and away from natural resources. The Catholic religion was also forcefully integrated into their lives and is still dominant there to this day.
“Christopher Columbus continues to be celebrated, and Colombians don’t know their story well, which is why they try to cling on to their Spaniard blood,” Pimienta says. “But despite the self-hatred and cultural confusion, the Caribbean resists. Surviving wars, dispossession of their lands and slavery, afro and indigenous peoples have maintained their culture, language and traditions.” ‘La Belleza’ closer “Busca La Luz” trumpets the same declaration in plain terms: “Long live the Caribbean! Long live a FREE Caribbean!”
‘La Belleza’ encapsulates why Lido Pimienta is the artist of our moment. Unafraid to explore the depths of her creativity, she produced a haunting, invigorating album that only prompts the question: What will come next? Pimienta knows that this is but the next chapter in a continuous creative process. “I made a gorgeous album inspired in the beauty of being indigenous and black, about the joy of sticking my teeth into a ripe mango, about love unrequited, about ceremony and ancestry, about life and death, about transition of soul and letting go of all that makes us feel a stone has replaced our heart.”
La Belleza gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Lido Pimienta – La Belleza [Streaming]
