Susana Baca live at WOMAD announced

The hour-long set is now being released for the very first time on a new digital-only album release, Live at WOMAD 2023, set for release on Real World Records on 21 November, 2025.

A first song from the concert Juana Azurduy / Latinoamérica, is available to hear now.

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During the 11-song set, and accompanied by her faultless band, Susana Baca draws on music from across her storied musical career. From Molino Molero, Negra Presuntuosa and Caras Lindas from her self-titled debut album, via Latinoamérica – her collaboration with Calle 13 – through to La Herida Oscura, Juana Azurduy, Cariño and Sorongo from the critically acclaimed album Palabras Urgentes, her first for Real World Records.

Susana Baca is an icon of Afro-Peruvian music, but her illustrious life and career have always been grounded by her environment and her calling to serve her community and country, be it as teacher or politician. This strong social conscience and political awareness have always fed into Baca’s music.

Indeed, on the Real World Records album Palabras Urgentes it is the combination of the music’s beauty and the urgency of the lyrics that are so compelling and Live at WOMAD 2023 is no different. A masterclass in understated power, full of compassion and joy but with a steely centre, a critical eye and unwavering desire to speak truth to power. These are songs, she says, that “weave music from my deepest roots with urgent words, of hope and condemnation, to seek out a mature and cherished truth.”

RW266 Susana Baca – Live at WOMAD 2023, released on 21 November, 2025 on all digital services. 
https://lnk.to/RW266