I enjoyed this quite a lot – both the music and the video. Lisa-Kaindé Diaz and Naomi Diaz are twin sisters, and together, they make music as Ibeyi. The duo were born in France but lived in Havana for the first two years of their lives. As daughters of Buena Vista Social Club percussionist Anga Díaz, the sisters often visited Cuba yearly on holiday, but were primarily raised in Paris, where they currently reside.
My first apartment was in Malate, and calling it “small” would be generous. I lived there with two girls and one guy, and to this day, I genuinely don’t know how we all fit. It felt like a magic trick. Or a health hazard. We were a musical mess. One roommate lived and breathed ’70s classics. Another was permanently blasting Korn and Slipknot. One survived solely on cheesy love songs. And me? I was floating somewhere between new wave and folk rock, pretending that made sense. Somehow, despite the noise and the chaos, we all lived together in this weird, mismatched harmony. No murders. No lawsuits. A win, honestly. My music taste now is nothing like it was in my twenties. Not even close. But I’ll always be grateful to Jacqueline for introducing me to this song in particular. It was playing when I woke up from a very memorable sleep in 2002. I was 21, half-awake, probably confused about life, and that song stuck. It still hasn’t let go.
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