First Fridays Ft. Lido Pimienta

First Fridays at The People’s Forum is a monthly concert series, curated and co-presented by Artists Against Apartheid, spotlighting the most bold, urgent, and electrifying cultural voices today. Come for genre-bending performances, stay for the communal energy, celebration, and art as resistance. Every show is a live, immersive experience—a space where music, politics, and activism meet. Don’t miss an evening where creativity fuels conversation, connection, and action.

For December, we're thrilled to be hosting the incomparable Artist Against Apartheid, Lido Pimienta, whose music fuses lush orchestration, electrifying rhythms, and her singular voice that lingers long after the last note.

About Lido Pimienta:

Lido Pimienta is an iconoclast who creates music and fine art drawn from her experience as a Caribbean woman from Colombia. Her latest album, La Belleza, is yet another huge leap in creativity for Pimienta – despite her having no classical training, the record features an entire orchestra and choir. Sonically inspired by European classical music and Gregorian chant, Pimienta created La Belleza with Ableton, her MIDI controller and producer Owen Pallett. Pimienta was excited by how this music felt like the opposite of Miss Colombia.

La Belleza is a symphonic experience that encapsulates why Lido Pimienta is the artist of our moment. Unafraid to explore the depths of her creativity, she produced a haunting, invigorating album that only prompts the question: What will come next?

Lido Pimienta is originally from Colombia and is currently living in Toronto, Canada. She was awarded a Polaris Prize for her 2017 album La Papessa which was released upon much critical acclaim. Her 2020 breakthrough album, Miss Colombia received praise from The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork and Remezcla, and was nominated for 2021 GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY awards. Also in 2021, Pimienta became the first woman of color to compose a piece of music for The New York City Ballet, a collaboration with choreographer Andrea Miller. In 2022 LIDO TV debuted, a sketch comedy show with guest appearances from Kittie and Nelly Furtado. Additionally, Lido Pimienta is cited as an A&R for Furtado’s latest album.

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