Lido Pimienta

"La Belleza Caribenya" Tour 2026

It has been five years since GRAMMY-nominated and Polaris Prize-winning artist Lido Pimienta released her breakthrough album, *Miss Colombia*, and today she returns with *La Belleza*, a transcendent new album inspired by European classical music and her personal life. An iconoclast who creates music and fine art inspired by her experience as a Caribbean woman from Colombia, Lido Pimienta’s new album marks a defining moment in her already remarkable career. “The idea of making ‘classical music’ never occurred to me before, but making experimental electronica on *Miss Colombia* wasn’t premeditated either,” Pimienta says. “Everything I create is a natural evolution of my curiosity and stubbornness.



Numerous collaborative experiences built up Pimienta’s confidence and drew her deeper into the classical themes of *La Belleza*. She turned to the second century for inspiration; two direct influences were the solemn liturgical hymn “Lux Aeterna,” a Gregorian chant performed at requiems (the Mass for the dead), and the 16th-century singing of the castrati—choirs of young boys who were castrated so they would permanently retain their high-pitched singing voices. “If, no matter what style or genre of music I make, the result will always be relegated to the ‘World Music’ section—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?”

La Belleza encapsulates why Lido Pimienta is the artist of our moment. Unafraid to explore the depths of her creativity, she has produced a haunting, invigorating album that only prompts the question: What will come next? Pimienta knows that this is merely the next chapter in an ongoing creative process. “I made a gorgeous album inspired by the beauty of being Indigenous and Black—about the joy of sinking my teeth into a ripe mango, about unrequited love, about ceremony and ancestry, about life and death, about the soul’s transition, and about letting go of everything that makes us feel as though a stone has replaced our heart.”