Queen of Latin Soul / Reina De la Cancion Latina (LP)

There is something raw and disruptive about La Lupe and her modalities of performance, something that far exceeds tropes of so-called hysteria and all the gendered and racial scripts that come along with it. Uncontrolled expression opens up new routes; it presses against obligatory composure.

The boleros, boogaloos and salsas of?Reina de la Canción Latina?contain lessons about love, about a willingness to stay alive, about what it means to push against the confines.?Reina de la Canción Latina?asks us to listen to La Lupe outside of a binary mode — to look a little deeper, to find her personhood and to search for flashes of freedom wherever we can.

Tracklist:

Side A
1 Amor Gitano
2 La Tirana
3 Aun
4 Tu Me Niegas
5 Negrura

Side B
1 Fever
2 Este Ritmo Sabroson
3 Busamba
4 Soy Sonerita
5 Mangulina Chismecito