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La Doña is a solo singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator from San Francisco, CA. Born Cecilia Cassandra Peña-Govea, La Doña began her career at age 7 playing trumpet, strings, and percussion in her family’s conjunto – La Familia Peña-Govea. Her compositions combine traditional and modern sounds from the Afro-Latinx diaspora – boleros and corridos to hip hop and reggaeton, singing unapologetically about love, sex, gentrification and the radical joys of being a queer Latina in the Bay Area. From Lollapalooza to Stern Grove Music Festival, La Doña’s live performances are ceremony and release for collective healing and political action. Her song “Quién Me La Paga” was featured in New York Times Magazine’s “19 Songs that Matter Now,” and her albums Algo Nuevo andCan’t Eat Clout made San Francisco Chronicle’s best albums of the year in 2020 and 2023 respectively.
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