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Daniela Lalita
Born
Daniela Czenstochowski

Lima, Peru
Occupations
  • Vocalist
  • songwriter
  • producer
  • artist
  • model
Years active2014–present
WorksDiscography
Musical career
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • synthesizer
Labels
Websitedanielalalita.com

Daniela Lalita (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈnjela laˈlita]), born Daniela Czenstochowski (Polish: [t͡ʂɛnstɔˈxɔfski] ⓘ, Spanish: [t͡ʃenstoˈxawski]), is a Peruvian vocalist, songwriter, producer, artist and model. She was born in Lima and moved to New York to study at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

She currently lives and works partly in London, where she is signed to the record label YOUNG (Beggars Group). In 2022, she released the critically acclaimed EP Trececerotres.

The versatile artist with experience as a trained fashion designer and model tailors her own costumes, designs stage sets, choreographs dance performances and directs her own music videos.

Early Life

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Daniela Czenstochowski was born in Lima, Peru, the daughter of architect Pilar Secada[1] and Venezuelan singer-songwriter, producer and Latin Grammy Award winner[2] Ilan Chester.[3] Between the ages of 5 and 10, she learned to imitate sounds in order to work as a voice actress for television commercials and theater.[4]After moving to the United States, she studied music technology at New York University.[4][5]

Career

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2013–2021: NYU study years, first recordings and guest appearances

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Daniela Lalita attended a graduate program at NYU Steinhardt Music Technology Department in New York.[6] Her mentor was Morton Subotnik, a pioneer of the modular Buchla synthesizer and in the development of electronic music in general, who said in a BBC interview that he "envisioned a world where a musician could be like a painter or a sculptor".[4][7]

Daniela Lalita recorded her first song in 2014 and released it on her SoundCloud page in September 2016. Over the next three years, further sound experiments followed on this platform.[8]

Several songs with guest appearances by Daniela Lalita were released between 2019 and 2021. The best known of these were the single “AS Acá” by deconstructed club artist duo Amnesia Scanner,[9][10] the song “AS Tearless” on their album Tearless with composition and lyrics by Daniela Lalita,[11][12] and the song "Premium Defects" by Fakethias and Daniela Lalita, which opened a viral film for the fashion house Mugler.[13]

2022–2025: Debut EP and further guest appearances

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On September 16, 2022, Daniela Lalita released her critically acclaimed first EP Trececerotres on the label YOUNG.[14] The Spanish title is a reference to the apartment 1303 in Lima, where she lived with her mother and grandmother before moving to New York.[15][16] She was greatly inspired by the teachings of both during the creation of the composition.[17] The album was repeatedly rated as one of the best EPs of 2022[18][19][20][21][22][23][24] and received positive reviews from Pitchfork,[25] Dazed,[14] and Gaffa:[18] It has been described as "rooted in magic, ritual, healing and matrilineal relationships",[17] as well as "bewitching" and "frightening",[4] portrayed as imbued with "melancholy and a touch of folklore",[4] and compared to "ancestral rituals"[26] and "psychotropic journeys".[16] She herself adds:

"I think that there's a lot of darkness as well as lightness and as well as magic"; it is "ritualistic, vulnerable, sincere, honest, and raw".[27]

The album was mastered by Grammy Award winner Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound[28][29] and the single "Tenía Razón", co-produced by Sega Bodega, became famous as part of the FIFA 23 soundtrack.[30][31][32]

Daniela Lalita was featured on the deep house singles "Drugs" (June 2023)[33][34] and "Love" (September 2023)[35] by Mura Masa. The first song also appeared on his album Curve 1, released in August 2024.[36] Clash described it as "the perfect platform for Daniela Lalita's vocal, with the rising Peruvian figure – and Young label affiliate – supplying some finesse."[37] The video, which stars Daniela Lalita, was named one of the six best creative music videos of 2023.[38]

In August 2023, the song "Sacrifices for the Greater Good" by Bobby Krlic (feat. Daniela Lalita) contributed to the soundtrack of the movie "Blue Beetle."[39] In the same month, two songs she produced, "Super Soaker", on which she also contributed vocals, and "Possession of a Weapon", were released on the album Weedkiller by Ashnikko.[40]

In Februar 2024, Daniela Lalita was featured on the experimental reggaetón album Chupetones by Meth Math with the song "Trenzas"[41] and two months later, Tristán!'s Music EP was released, which features Daniela Lalita on the art pop song "Pinky Ring".[42][43][44] She performed at festivals such as Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain,[45] and her first full-length album is scheduled for 2025.[46]

Artistry

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Musical style

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Daniela Lalita's musical style has been described by critics as a fusion of several genres, including folktronica,[19][23][24][22][47] art pop,[19][22][47][48] experimental electronic,[49][50] post-industrial,[24] electroacoustic,[51] and experimental folk.[48]

Influences

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In an interview with fashion magazine i-D Daniela Lalita explained that she was influenced by "Carl Jung, allegories of all kind[s], Hildegard von Bingen, Morton Subotnick, Clive Barker, Aphex Twin and most Warp records from the 90's."[1]

Discography

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Main article: Daniela Lalita discography

Studio albums

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Singles

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Fashion design

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From 2010 to 2014, Daniela Lalita studied design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Apparel.[52] She was a finalist at the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).[53]

After moving to Manhattan, she interned with Sarah Gore-Reeves, the fashion director of Vogue México y Latinoamérica, from June to September 2014 to learn about the editorial side of the industry.[53]

From August to December 2014, she was an intern at the Eckhaus Latta brand, where she assisted the designers in the production of garments, making and correcting patterns.[1][54]

In 2015, she collaborated with Titi Guiulfo to gain further knowledge of fabrics and the use of Peruvian products in the production of materials and garments.[53] Since then, her professional involvement in fashion design has been limited to making dresses and costumes for music videos and performances.[4][55]

Modeling

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During her design studies at RISD, Daniela Lalita completed an internship at VFiles. Two years later, in September 2015, she launched her modeling career by walking the runway for the company for the first time at the Spring/Summer 2016 show during New York Fashion Week (NYFW).[1][53] The following month she was photographed for the Peruvian brand MARÍA and had shoots for American Apparel, CANDY magazine[53][56] and The Cut.[57]

In September 2017, Daniela Lalita was part of the Eckhaus Latta S/S 18 Show.[58] A year later, she was cast by designer Raul Solis alongside Carly Mark for the LRS S/S '19 show at NYFW,[59] for which she also created a mix.[60] In her biography, this marks the transition to the increasing use of music as a means of artistic expression. Nevertheless, Daniela Lalita continues to walk in shows such as Paris Fashion Week in February 2023, participate in photo shoots for various fashion houses (e.g. Givenchy in March 2022) and campaigns (e.g. Yves Saint Laurent in February 2023) and appear in numerous fashion magazines: In November 2022 for an interview in i-D magazine,[61] followed by a photo series by Colin Solal Cardo for the French magazine Numéro in February 2023,[4] and in September 2023 she was featured on the cover of the fall/winter issue of the British 10 Magazine, a portrait by Peruvian fashion photographer Mariano Vivanco.[62]

Film

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In June 2015, Daniela Lalita was a narrator of the episode "Daniela & Francesco" (S1 E6) in the TV series "R.I.P.", which was written and directed by Lena Greene and Lorraine Nicholson.[63]

In December 2017, she was one of the two actresses in the horror short film "Know Nothing" directed by Carly Mark,[64] which was part of the predominantly video and photo-based show Vanquished by the Fickle Goddess, which was shown in Venice, Italy, in March 2018.[65]

Daniela Lalita directed the music video for the song "Tenía Razón" herself in July 2022. She described it as

"a form of self-exploration of the relationships we have with our past and future selves, with the intention of trying to love and understand ourselves in all our variations, no matter how many times those manifest as constant, antagonistic...and almost monstrous voices trying to destroy one's sense of self. Many of these internal battles and emotions are almost impossible to explain so I hope to connect with others who are experiencing similar emotions."[26]

She also directed the music videos for two other songs on her debut EP: firstly, “Pisoteo”, choreographed by Lourdes Leon and released in September 2022,[61] and secondly, the title track “Trececerotres”, which was released in February 2023.[66]

Performance art

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In October 2016, Daniela Lalita was involved in a puppet theater performance curated by Shelby Jackson and Paul Gondry, the son of Michel Gondry, in Brooklyn, New York, together with other artists such as Rochelle Goldberg, Jacky Connolly, Ficus Interfaith and Martine Fougeron.[67]

In the same month, she collaborated with Ser Serpas and Gia Garison under the name "Swarovski Crystal Meth".[68] She composed and produced music for the performance "Selkie Series" curated by Alexandra Marzell at the National Sawdust, Brooklyn, New York, which combined costumes, clothing, puppets and music.[69]

In October 2017, Daniela Lalita premiered the art performance and multimedia montage Madre: A Disruptive Environment in New York in collaboration with choreographer Remy Maelen.[16][70] In her critically acclaimed conceptual art show, Lalita explores themes related to the archetypes of the "Great Mother" inspired by the work of Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung.[1][70][71] She invited artists, actors, models (Grace Hartzel, Lida Fox, Carly Mark) and her own mother to perform in this mixture of fashion show, film screening, theater, music and art.[54][70] At the same time, Madre provided the framework in which Lalita's musical sound took shape.[72]

From February to March 2018, the exhibition Vanquished by the Fickle Goddess in Venice, curated by Antonia Marsh, showed video art by Daniela Lalita and Carly Mark, supplemented and deepened by photography.[5][73] Both artists wore self-designed costumes and performed as "life-size sculptures" of their exaggerated, enlarged characters based on perceived archetypes.[55] Curator Antonia Marsh explained: "Carly and Daniela pervert, subvert, dement and augment characters all based on reality, to the point that they become barely human, barely recognizable."[65]

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