NATHY PELUSO BECOMES UNTAMED SALSA WOMAN WITH HER NEW EP ‘MALPORTADA’
You can almost feel the heat rising. Malportada, Nathy Peluso’s new six-track salsa EP, is less a genre exercise than a statement — a wild, sweat-slicked reclamation of sound and story. The title track, featuring Venezuelan band Rawayana, invites use into the cinematic, humid, and just a little dangerous world of Peluso.
“Salsa is crude and passionate,” she says. “It’s the music of the untamed and the indestructible.” Recorded in Puerto Rico with collaborators Manuel Lara, Servando Primera, and Benjamín Alerhand, the project moves between the drama of ’70s salsa sinfónica and the smooth pulse of ’80s salsa romántica. The result feels lived-in, focused on authenticity rather than over-polished execution.
Following Grasa and two new Latin GRAMMY nominations, Malportada finds Peluso rewriting the salsa playbook with her as the anti-muse, the malportada, the one who refuses to be tamed.
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