{"id":371014,"date":"2026-10-12T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371014\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:40:08","slug":"akriila-six-sex-vita-and-alex-vs-alex-latin-club-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371014\/","title":{"rendered":"Akriila, Six Sex, Vita, and aLex vs aLex: Latin Club Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSince the turn of the millennium, Latin America has become a hotbed of electronic dance music, warping countless homegrown rhythms at block parties, bedrooms, and mega clubs across the region. In the late aughts, the futuristic cowboys of Mexico\u2019s tribal guarachero boom launched superstars like 3BallMTY and Erick Rinc\u00f3n, laying the percussive foundation for Colombia\u2019s guaracha takeover of the following decade and breakouts like Fumaratto. In Argentina, cumbia, reggaeton, and EDM fused into kitschy cachengue, while over in Brazil, the socially charged boom of baile funk turned into the favorite crib sheet of European DJs looking to spice up their techno set. You have Venezuelan changa tuki and DJ Babatr, the architect of raptor house whose influence can be heard blaring at every sweaty circuit party around the world. And in the Dominican Republic, DIY beatmakers disassembled and sped up reggaeton\u2019s dembow riddim into hypnotic dance floor experience, paving the way for crossover sensations like El Alfa and Tokischa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Latin America\u2019s sprawling club movement is at the forefront of dance music innovation, the inclusion of women has often lagged, despite an abundance of talent. That\u2019s started to change: Labels and collectives such as NAAFI in Mexico, Hiedrah in Argentina, and Salviatek in Uruguay helped launch the boundary pushing careers of Debit, Tayhana, and Lila Tirando a Violeta respectively, producers experimenting with global trends and local traditions. The Brazilian party Mamba Negra made a core tenet out of elevating women, queer people, and POCs, building strong creative relationships with multi-disciplinary artists such as Cashu, Clementaum, and Jup do Bairro. Meanwhile, in the diaspora, Berlin-based DJ Edna Mart\u00ednez celebrates the soundsystem hybrids of neon lit pic\u00f3s booming across Colombia\u2019s Caribbean Coast.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe dance floor can be both refuge and revolution, and throughout Latin America, women are leading the sounds and scenes committed to sweaty hedonism. From rising stars who make mutant baile funk to rave queens shaping a raunchy new wave of techno-pop, here are the divas changing the face of club music. <\/p>\n

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\n\tEasy Easy was already a cult shoegaze band in Guatemala before Sof\u00eda Insua stepped in to fill the massive shoes of their previous singer, Jesse Baez. But she gradually found her footing, and by the time she began dropping solo tracks as aLex vs aLex<\/a> in 2024, Insua was already living in New York City and exploring a sultry alt-R&B sound. Her breakthrough came last year after her crossover with Divino Ni\u00f1o<\/a> singer Camilo Medina (a.k.a S.3.R) on the single \u201ccentro aLt,\u201d which fused reggaeton and vallenato and sent the Chap\u00edn ing\u00e9nue careening towards the dance floor, laying the ground work for her waist-winding new EP clich\u00e9. Now is the time to hedge your bets on aLex vs aLex since opening slots for Rusowsky<\/a> and Ralphie Choo, as well as a spring tour with Chet Faker, proved her gauzy SoundCloud vocals can also command packed theaters.<\/p>\n

\n\tTrans women and femmes have emerged as arbiters of Brazil\u2019s dance music scene, from the body politics of Katy e as Abusadas\u2019s abrasive funk bruxaria, to Pabllo Vittar\u2019s high-glam pop crossovers. Somewhere in the glittering middle is Vita Pereira, who first caused a ruckus as half of Irm\u00e3s de Pau, an irreverent partnership with singer and rapper Isma where baile funk and ballroom swirled into a fantasia of sex and hedonism. She broke out on her own earlier this year with Vita\u2019s House, enlisting some of Brazil\u2019s mightiest producers including CyberKills, Badsista, and d.silvestre, who enriched her sonic palette with blasts of guaracha and techno. Throughout the LP, sultry vocals crescendo into primal screaming over gigantic beats, capturing the agony and ecstasy of queer liberation with enough cheek to keep you focused on twerking like your life depends on it.<\/p>\n

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Argentina\u2019s queen of perreo-rave has become a South American it-girl, landing buzzy domestic collaborations with Dillom<\/a> and Emilia Mernes<\/a>, and strutting into the international spotlight with guest spots on tracks from Shy Girl and Yeri Mua. Six Sex is the raunchy, doe-eyed alias of Francisca Cuello, who made a splash in neoperreo before going viral in 2024 with her Satisfire EP, which came loaded with techno-driven affirmations about being \u201cHot&perfecT\u201d and running through boys like tissues on \u201c4 noviosS.\u201d Her debut album, Ultra, arrived this summer, cranking the party to the max with saturated gabber beats, lush visuals inspired by horror cinema, and audacious explorations of the darker side of pleasure. This year, Six Sex played Lollapalooza editions in Argentina, Chile, and Chicago, as well as Primavera Sound in Barcelona, and she just wrapped sold out tours throughout Europe and the United States. She\u2019ll be preaching the gospel of excess throughout South America until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAkriila<\/a> has always been an anomaly. She made her first splash in Chile\u2019s trap scene as the mean-mugging, ruby-haired misanthrope rapping about anime girls (\u201cMona Xina\u201d) and curious about her country\u2019s expansive folk canon (\u201cAnticueca\u201d). But as her star rose, so did the unwillingness to conform. Her 2024 debut Epistolares broke the internet with brazen collisions of reggaeton, K-pop, and digicore, standing toe-to-toe with contemporary titans like Taichu, Young Cister, and Princesa Alba, and capping it all with a gut-wrenching acoustic dedication to her father. As the world took notice, high profile duets with \u00c1lvaro D\u00edaz<\/a> and Milo J<\/a> exposed her to the mainstream, and soon came a record deal with Atlantic Records. However, Akriila\u2019s sophomore effort, lucy mir\u00f3 el mundo y not\u00f3 que est\u00e1 girando, again subverted expectations, embracing an introspective, grunge-inflected sound that showcased her profound collaborative relationship with producers Heartgaze and Vinco. Still, flashes of dance floor maximalism emerge, especially with the rapturous \u201cSuave\u201d alongside the new ace of loud music, Jane Remover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the turn of the millennium, Latin America has become a hotbed of electronic dance music, warping countless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[136834,136835,9,24,63,122,124,123,136836,136837],"class_list":["post-371014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-akriila","tag-alex-vs-alex","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-six-sex","tag-vita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}