Karina Daza denounces with her heart

His song “Mujeres Will Riot” is a song of denunciation and support for victims of violence

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Last summer, when Karina Daza went to visit her family in New York, she couldn’t help but feel angry when she saw the news and found out about the murder of private Vanessa Guillén at a Texas military base .

Then, another piece of news filled her with indignation: many women who had been detained in a migration center in Georgia, reported that they had been sexually abused there; many of them had also been sterilized against their will.

“I had plans to record other singles, but I stopped to write this because it meant a lot to me,” Karina said about “Mujeres Will Riot”, a song denouncing and supporting these women that premiered together with its respective video on 22 April, the one year anniversary of Vanessa’s death. “It came from my heart.”

The creation of this song was a form of therapy for Karina, who, like thousands of artists around the world, had to stop her plans with music due to the pandemic. She had not had a good time due to the confinement and the situation derived from the global health crisis, so writing this song made her feel better.

The indie pop ballad theme not only raises her voice in favor of these women, as described by Karina, but at the same time it became a project in which fourteen women artists collaborated, including the Guatemalan singer based in Los Angeles, Gaby Moreno, who was the producer of the simple.

All, in some way, were added to Karina’s proposal to donate the proceeds to Project South, an organization that exposes the conditions of the migration centers and is fighting to close them. It also provides help to migrant women to fight for justice in cases of sexual assault and rape.

Karina is a singer with Puerto Rican and Colombian roots. She was born and raised in New York, but when she decided to start her career as a singer-songwriter, she realized that this was not the best place to develop her talent. So on one occasion, when the college where she was studying music invited her to sing jazz at a conference in Nashville, she happily accepted.

“Who says no to a Free plane ticket and hotel? ”he said. “One day, in my free time, I left the hotel to see downtown Nashville and I fell in love.”

So for a couple of years this city is Karina’s place of residence. There he has found a small tribe of Latino artists, but more than anything, a charming community and good vibes.

“I love New York, and someday I want to return”, He said. “But there is a way of being here, more to help, instead of New York, which is more of ‘you’re getting in the way’.”

He also likes that not there is so much competition and people are very receptive to your proposal. And no, Karina doesn’t sing country and she doesn’t like it either, even though in Tennessee it’s the predominant genre. She continues to develop her style, which fuses her Latin roots and English and Spanish.

“It took me years to find my sound,” said Karina, from 27 years. “Now I feel that I am a mix and I am happy with that decision because I am a mix of various roots.”