How I Made It: Lido Pimienta on ‘Miss Colombia’

How I Made It: Lido Pimienta on ‘Miss Colombia’

By Futuro Media and PRX

Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Lido Pimienta tells us how her experience of migration led to her love of Afro-Colombian music, how a beauty pageant and its underlying anti-blackness inspired her new album, and how she came to collaborate with the legendary Afro-Colombian ensemble, Sexteto Tabalá, in her track "Pelo Cucú.”

This episode originally aired in 2020.

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