Ivelisse Del Carmen released a track that pulls you from the first second. The way she moves between Spanish and English feels natural, like she’s talking to family one minute and explaining herself to strangers the next. She is a talented artist, and her music is very unique.
The sugarcane verse stands out, sweet and bitter, machete and whip, because it doesn’t dance around the ugly parts of history. She’s been living outside Puerto Rico for twenty years, and this song is her coming to grips with what that actually means. Ivelisse is taking pieces of who she is, language, heritage, and distance from home, and making them work together. The song has backbone, it knows what it wants to say and says it clearly.
If you’ve been sleeping on her previous releases, this is a good place to jump in, because she’s building toward something bigger and you’ll want to catch up before she gets there.
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