Coronando a la Puta Princesa

E.R. PULGAR in conversation with VALLEY LATINI

PHOTOGRAPHY by PENELOPE DARIO

THE RISING COLOMBIAN-AMERICAN ARTIST MAKES MUSIC THAT CHANNELS THE “UNTOUCHABLE WHORE”, SEEKING THE DIVINE IN HER EXPERIENCES ON THE POLE.

Diasporic identity can take every form imaginable: several generations into a migration when language and root are lost, first-gen kids with fragmented memories, families taking the leap and making emigres of themselves and their families. For Colombian-American musician Valley Latini, her family forewent the foggy gray of Bogotá, Colombia for the blazing sun of Nashville, Tennessee.

We ended up in this Stepford town that was super religious,” Latini tells me over Zoom from a secluded part of Colombia, sipping a glass of green wine poolside. “It was like Seventh-day Adventist megachurch vibes. At church, I was always wearing the sluttiest dresses. I was on my knees, honey, —but not praying.”

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