Sonic Resistances between the Andes, the Caribbean and Barcelona
As part of the Festival La Kumbiamba, this episode of the Fes! Cultura Podcast explores how projects like Las Forasteritas, Marina y su Melao and Meli Perea reshape ancestral sounds —Andean huayno, Puerto Rican bomba and Afro-Caribbean rhythms— within the urban landscape of Barcelona. Through a conversation moderated by Diego Salazar, Colombian cultural manager and researcher, the episode examines how music functions as a symbolic territory for migrant communities, creating spaces of belonging, resistance and memory.
The gathering brings artistic trajectories and migratory experiences into dialogue, asking what cultural rights are at stake when rhythms and resistances travel from one continent to another. Starting from the idea that popular music is also a practice of care, joy and struggle for the right to a place of one’s own, the conversation reflects on how dancing, singing and coming together become ways of demanding visibility, recognition and cultural autonomy in the city.
- When: Thursday 4 June 2026, 7pm
- Where: Centro Cultural La Farinera del Clot. Bar
- Format: live podcast recording
- Estimated duration: 60–70 minutes
- Distribution: subsequent publication on the Fes! Cultura YouTube channel
- Production: Fes! Cultura / Connectats Cooperativa, Barcelona
- In association with: Festival La Kumbiamba
Bios
Afro-Colombian artist born in Bogotá, based in Catalonia since 2020. Her work brings together traditional Colombian music, rap and electronics with an intimate focus on migration, territory and healing. She began her career with Suákata and since 2023 has been developing a solo path with albums including Prisma and Entre Caminos.
Puerto Rican singer based in Barcelona and leader of Marina y su Melao. Her work reclaims Puerto Rican bomba and connects it with contemporary Afro-Caribbean sounds, bringing a community tradition into the present with strong stage presence and a migrant perspective.
Member of Las Forasteritas. His presence in the podcast adds the perspective of a diverse migrant band that reinterprets Andean and cumbia sounds from Barcelona, in dialogue with the experiences of displacement, belonging and collective celebration at the heart of the festival.
Colombian cultural manager and researcher based in Barcelona since 2004. He co-directs Connectats Cooperativa and leads Fes! Cultura, a platform dedicated to promoting the cultural participation of migrants and racialised communities from a cultural rights perspective.
