Brooklyn-born recording and performance artist Latasha Alcindor, widely-known as LATASHÁ, has carved out a lane for herself. Her secret weapon: authenticity.
The Afro-Latina creative — who is of Panamanian, Puerto Rican, Haitian and Jamaican descent — is not shy about tackling layered topics throughout her work. Whether you listen to her debut album, The L.A. Riots: Mental Fatality (released under her former moniker LA), B(LA)K or more recent project, Teen Nite at Empire, she unpacks gentrification, womanhood, healing and Blackness, to name a few.
“As I transcend, I want to continue to create art that is still like, yo, that girl is just like me,” she shared with Ain’t I Latina?.”
LATASHÁ spoke with me at the 2018 Afro-Latino Festival in New York about her cultural background, how she infuses identity into her music, and why she’s transparent about her hardships. Watch the interview, below:
Producers: Francis Carrero and Sasha Fountain
Video edit by Francis Carrero
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