DAYMÉ AROCENA ANNOUNCES NEW EP “DAYMÉ Y YO”
The Cuban Singer-Songwriter Signs Exclusive Deal with BMG,
Releasing ‘Daymé y yo’ — Her First Project Under the New
Partnership — Out May 30.
Dayme's Recent Album 'Alkemi' Is Currently Nominated For
"Best Latin Record" At The A2IM Libera Awards.
Afro-Cuban soul sensation Daymé Arocena (@DaymeArocena) has released the new single "Mean." It is the first single to preview her upcoming EP 'Daymé y yo' which will be released on May 30. The
award-winning singer-songwriter also celebrates a major milestone in her career with an exclusive deal signed with BMG — with ‘Daymé y yo’ marking the first
release under the new partnership.
The singer-songwriter originally wrote "Mean" when she was a teenager but couldn't find the right time to release it until now. "It was my first blues song,"
Daymé shares. "It is from a moment when I discovered that the blues can be a superpower for me. Few things make me feel more at my center than singing and writing from that corner. It brings out my wildest, most irreverent, and most real
self."
'Daymé y yo' is a 7 song EP which features previously unreleased songs as well as intimate versions of her most iconic tracks. It includes just vocals and piano, recorded live in Mexico City. The EP is the testimony of an artist who, since childhood, wrote music as a form of expression—and of a voice that gave those feelings life through song. 'Daymé y yo' is an open letter to the duality that lives
within a single soul: the artistic being and the human being of Daymé.
Daymé's new release follows her Latin GRAMMY 2024 nomination for "Song of the Year" with "A Fuego Lento" featuring Dominican star Vicente Garcia. "A Fuego Lento" is from Daymé's acclaimed album 'Alkemi' which was profiled in the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine.
When Daymé decided to switch gears and record her fourth studio album 'Alkemi' in Puerto Rico with the multiple Grammy award-winning producer, Eduardo
Cabra (Calle 13), she never imagined that she would end up moving there. "From the moment I stepped foot on the island, I realized that I never wanted to leave,”says the 31-year-old Cuban singer/songwriter with a hearty laugh. “At the time, I had spent three years away from Cuba, living in Canada with my husband. I called and asked him to come over to Puerto Rico, and to please bring all my stuff. It
wasn’t a conscious decision on my part. It was simply love at first sight.”
Relying on instinct and intuition is how Daymé has managed her career since she burst on the international scene with 'Nueva Era,' her prodigious debut album, in 2015. She has fully reinvented her sound with 'Alkemi,' a
revolutionary – and
transformative – fusion of neo soul singing, Afro-Caribbeanbeats and slick new millennium pop.
Born in Havana in 1992, Daymé grew up immersed in Afro-Cuban folk, but also listening to cassette tapes of Sade, her father’s favorite singer. She was identified
as a prodigious talent at only 8 years old and soon started studying music.
After studying at the prestigious Amadeo Roldán conservatory, she became co-founder and band member of the all-female Cuban-Canadian jazz collective Maqueque in 2014. With the collective, she launched several international tours and earned a
GRAMMY nomination.
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