Pahua’s work, in her project Sotomayor and in her new EP La Cura, reflects her evolution as an artist, one who embraces self-introspection, art, and “the rhythms and colors of Latin America” as elements for growth and healing. The EP drops today and is available on all music platforms.
The contributions Pahua is making to music are paramount to its development. Pahua’s work as a producer, singer-songwriter, and musician puts her in a distinct group of people – the women who are part of the music industry at large.
Unfuckin’fortunately, it seems, there has been “no meaningful and sustained increase in the number of female musicians in the male-governed music-making business in close to a decade,” according to the recent report published by *USC’s Annenberg Institute.
Some of their findings include numbers for producers and, in this case, the report was tabulated based on producers across each song on the Hot 100 Year-End Charts for 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2018 through 2020.
Continue reading here. Originally published in MANO Magazine.
