No Filter With Lizbeth Román
Full interview…
Symphonic (Sym): Can you share a lyric from one of your songs that particularly moves you?
Lizbeth Román (LR): « Agua que volví» and «Soy una isla», those two. Outside the winds whip (singing), inside everything moves, the sound of so much life, so much wound, so much death. I am a river, the stones crash, I smile at the flow that is a blow. When I hear the rain announce the imminent, it is time to be a torrent, of water that returns.
(continues singing) The blue sea surrounded me and at crossroads, I had to keep swimming in pure sky and high seas. For each new love, mountains were born in me and I felt in my guts what a tree later email database australia became. They called me ceiba once, hurricane also melancholy. I have become a flower among the flowers.
Sym: It is impossible to ignore the politics surrounding Puerto Rico at this particular moment. How does your Boricua identity manifest itself in your music?
LR: I am a Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and queer non-binary artist, and the story of the songs I write definitely reflects that experience in different ways. The longings, that drive for liberation that speaks so much about our political, everyday, but also spiritual, emotional, and psychological context. So that's the point. Caribbeanness is also represented in my music in the fusion of rhythms, that folklore, and all that interweaving at a musical level, at a storytelling level, and from my own performance, from the being that I am and that manifests itself on stage and in what I do creatively.
Sym: What do you feel when you perform in front of an audience? What are the feelings that drive you when you perform?