Press release
Dominican-Italian breakout star YEИDRY (@Yendry) has released the new bolero single “Mala Mia,” a goodbye letter to her past life in Italy and to her former romantic partner. Now based in Los Angeles, YEИDRY is finalizing her long-awaited debut album set for release this fall.
“It is hard to love when you still haven’t found yourself,” YENDRY shares. “Sometimes the only way to do it is to leave it all behind, including my old self, the one who always tried to keep up with others’ expectations. This song, ‘Mala Mia,’ is the farewell that opened the way to a new life.”
Born in Santo Domingo and raised in Turin, YEИDRY’s story unfolds across the different places that have each shaped who she is. That sense of in-between—of never belonging to just one place, yet learning to feel at home in all of them—sits at the core of both her artistry and her perspective. What once felt like fragmentation has now become her foundation: a fluid, self-defined space where culture, language, and memory coexist seamlessly.
YEИDRY first gained international recognition with her distinct sound on the debut single “Nena” and a COLORS live session which has now generated nearly 20 million views. In recent years, she has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including J Balvin, Damian Marley, Bomba Estéreo, Mozart La Para, Emotional Oranges, and Lous and the Yakuza, amongst others. Barack Obama included her on his Favorite Music of the Year playlist and she was nominated for Best New Female Artist at Premios Lo Nuestro.
YEИDRY has performed at such major festivals as Lollapalooza Paris, Corona Capital, and Austin City Limits. Last year, she joined ASTROPICAL (Bomba Estéreo & Rawayana) across North America, performing at venues including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, SummerStage in Central Park in New York City, and Hard Rock Live in Miami.
Alongside music, YEИDRY has built a strong presence in fashion, approaching it as another language through which her identity can be expressed beyond music. She has walked in Willy Chavarria’s New York Fashion Week show in collaboration with Adidas, as well as Kenzo’s Paris Fashion Week, and has been a front-row presence for Jean Paul Gaultier, Acne Studios, Stella McCartney, and Balmain. Her collaborations span global brands including adidas, Porsche, DKNY, Oscar de la Renta, Desigual x Esteban Cortázar, PUMA, and EQUINOX.
At the heart of it all is a continuous process of becoming. YEИDRY often describes herself as in motion—someone still on the journey rather than at its destination, still discovering what each place, and each version of herself, has to offer. That feeling carries into her forthcoming debut album, a body of work shaped by personal upheaval, reconnection, and creative independence. Written over the past two years without a fixed agenda, the project moves through themes of family, migration, nostalgia, and growth. She defines her debut album by three pillars: the remedy, the ritual, and the mirror. It is both a return—to her Dominican roots, to her past—and a step forward into a version of herself she has consciously chosen.
Grounded yet unbound, YEИDRY exists in that rare space where identity is not something to explain, but something to live—freely, and on her own terms.
