{"id":708623,"date":"2026-06-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.com\/?p=708623"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:17:02","slug":"who-is-daniela-lalita-the-magnetic-goth-and-romantic-music-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/culture-en\/music\/who-is-daniela-lalita-the-magnetic-goth-and-romantic-music-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Daniela Lalita, the magnetic goth-romantic music sensation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The mystical world of the enchanting Daniela Lalita\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When listening to Daniela Lalita<\/b>\u2019s music, you can immediately picture a coven of witches gathered round a fire at full moon while wolves, owls and other night creatures cry out in the dark. For the young New York-based Peruvian artist catches the listener in the nets of her polymorphic voice like the magnetic voice of sirens. Indeed the voice is Daniela Lalita\u2019s first instrument, as shown on her first EP, Trececerotres<\/i><\/b>, which was released last September. A voice that is at times a sensual cajoling murmur, at others a primitive guttural growl, but also attains a warlike screech worthy of a cavalry of Valkyries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An artist who uses her voice to push musical limits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From a very young age, Daniela Lalita<\/strong> perceived her voice as an essential and powerful means of expression. The young Lalita, her musician mother and her grandmother would often use sounds instead of words to communicate. The Peruvian artist soon began to use her voice in TV adverts, dubbing images of children or creatures. Standing behind a microphone between the ages of 5 and 10, she learned to mimic different emotions through her vocal feats. The decade that followed would see her passion for music turn into a calling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniela Lalita<\/strong> moved to the US to study music technology at the prestigious New York University. Under the supervision of her mentor Morton Subotnick<\/b>, a prominent figure on the electro scene, the Lima-born artist dived into composition and pushed the limits of sound experimentation. She became fascinated by the Buchla, a synthesizer that allowed her to innovate and go further with her voice. \u201cThe moment I turned it on, I felt like I was giving birth,\u201d <\/i>she recalls. \u201cIt was as though each of its modules were a bodily organ<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From voice to body: Daniela Lalita\u2019s visceral connection to music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Daniela Lalita<\/b>\u2019s visceral relationship with singing also comes through in the way she embodies it in images. Since childhood, she has felt music flowing in her veins \u2014 from her living room, where she used to perform before an imaginary audience, to her stints as a model in New York and the years she spent dancing ballet. Movement has allowed her to give form to the fire within her. A good example was her flamboyant performance Madre<\/em>, which she created as part of her studies in 2017. A mix of fashion show, film projection and play that caught the attention of her future label, Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her search for expression can also be found in the way she stages herself on the cover of her EP, wearing a tight black dress that turns her into a spectral shadow. The outfit contrasts to her white, ethereal looks, which make of her look like an angel or a white lady from a gothic novel. Naturally, she develops this side in her videos too. For Tenia Raz\u00f3n<\/em>, she appears with a group of women whose trance-like movements recall the choreography of Pina Bausch<\/b>, while for Pisoteo<\/em> she contorts herself, alone, like an animal guided by its primal instinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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