{"id":36105,"date":"2020-10-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=36105"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:33:22","slug":"playing-toronto-daniela-andrade-nothing-much-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/playing-toronto-daniela-andrade-nothing-much-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAYING TORONTO: Daniela Andrade Unravels Latinx Identity on Latest EP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-324x324.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-416x416.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Daniela-Andrade-Photo-Credit_-Jean-Francois-Sauve-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Photo Credit: Jean Fran\u00e7ois Sauv\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really just wanted to come out of what felt like a very strange Spring with something tangible. Music always helps me process emotions and this project is very much a result of needing that for my own sanity,\u201d shares Daniela Andrade about the making of her forthcoming EP, <em>Nothing much has changed, I don&#8217;t feel the same<\/em>, the follow-up to 2019\u2019s self-released EP,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/03qMGEbUXMypieuFY8xOsn?si=Y3ZKtsK0QCeNfYadqPQgdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tamale<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world, Andrade<a>\u2014<\/a>in quarantine\u2014longed for experiences she once took for granted. \u201cI just missed being around people. Sitting next to or gazing at the park, simple interactions like that,&#8221; Andrade says. &#8220;Touch became something I missed deeply. Friendly affection [that] I think we all miss in the countless zoom calls. In retrospect, having dug into memories or fantasies seemed like a form of escape or survival, hope even.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a single listen of <em>Nothing much has changed<\/em>\u2026 takes you through shifts in sound, from the loungey-languidness of its romantic title track to \u201cPuddles\u201d glitchy R&amp;B vibe and the wistfully slow pace of \u201cDeseo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At times, I love keeping things stripped down, but I also like more elaborate and manipulated production like what Tyler the Creator and Frank Ocean do,&#8221; Andrade says. &#8220;I really love R&amp;B lyricism and have also been revisiting old Spanish classics my parents grew up on. I don\u2019t want to hold myself back from trying out different styles so long as it feels true to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/7JRxCqZEgcgduakDOCgjg1\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being true to where her music takes her reverberates through Andrade\u2019s work by way of its unapologetic fluidity, effortlessly moving from R&amp;B to classic Latin rhythms, and from Spanish to English. \u201cI always knew I loved speaking and thinking in Spanish,\u201d she explains. \u201cThanks to my mother&#8217;s diligence, Spanish was my mother tongue and I was able to hold onto it. It\u2019s hard to explain if you don\u2019t speak more than one language but mannerisms and intonations change so much from one language to another. People talk about alter-egos \u2014 I\u2019ve felt like me and my Spanish self were more like sisters than one entire whole of me. I was afraid to approach writing in Spanish out of fear of not doing the language I treasured justice. Once I did it though \u2014 on <em>Tamale<\/em> \u2014 it felt really good and incredibly natural. I think the idea of the mainstream is also changing. I hear more Latinx artists coming up and it\u2019s starting to feel like the new normal to accept diverse sounds and stories. It\u2019s really exciting to feel more represented in music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born to Honduran parents who immigrated to Canada before her birth, Andrade grew up surrounded by music, recalling her father and three siblings harmonizing together. But the spiritual and secular words of music were competing forces in her childhood. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My influences are heavily grounded in two different experiences: growing up in a religious household and leaving the church,&#8221; Andrade says. &#8220;Growing up, I wasn\u2019t allowed to listen to non-religious music at home, although there were few exceptions when my older siblings played me music they loved.&#8221; That music could be as diverse as Boyz II Men and Lauryn Hill, which her sisters loved, or the salsa and Sade her brother played. Or her father\u2019s favourite, Julio Iglesias. Her middle school best friend introduced her to Guns N\u2019 Roses, The Gorillaz, Daft Punk and Linkin Park. &#8220;I\u2019d spend countless hours at her place, and we would listen to whatever we wanted on YouTube,&#8221; she recalls. &#8220;Having been in choirs most of my life, and near the end of my religious experience, gospel and R&amp;B became new obsessions with groups like Destiny\u2019s Child, and their three-part harmonies. Or Toni Braxton and her incredible tone.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While a career in creative writing tugged at her, by the end of high school the dream of music won. She created a YouTube channel with friend and manager, Jeff Kwok, and a couple years later she was a full-time musician, leaving her waitressing job behind. She had also left the church, leading her to exploring womanhood and self-expression on levels she had never had the opportunity to do before. &#8220;I feel really passionate about the female experience under conservative, religious households,&#8221; Andrade says. &#8220;I know how it affected questions I had about so many things that I realized are normal for other girls to know [and] understand about themselves outside of a religious framework. In many ways I feel like I am just beginning to grasp how this affected my outlook on life and where I am choosing to stand now as a person and citizen.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is now on a journey \u2013 musically and personally \u2013 to uncover the forces that have shaped who she is, and those she loves. \u201cAs a Latinx woman growing up within the context that I did, I simply wasn\u2019t given the tools or language to value myself and my existence within my experience as a child to immigrants,\u201d she shares. \u201cI\u2019m starting to understand that the answer as to why leads to endless questions. It\u2019s going to be a lifetime of work to continue to unravel these questions and I\u2019m very much looking forward to continuing to dig into it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Follow Daniela Andrade on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danielaandrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/danielaandrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> for ongoing updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI really just wanted to come out of what felt like a very strange Spring with something tangible. 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