Juana Luna (Argentina / USA)

Juana Luna is a singer and composer from Buenos Aires, now based in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Luna has won multiple Independent Music Awards, including Best Latin Song for "Los Verdes." Luna's career highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, where she debuted her album Canciones en Blanco y Negro (Songs in Black and White) in 2024. Luna’s work reflects her commitment to both performance and teaching, often focusing on social justice and community-building through the arts.

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On the Latin Café track, “Merceditas,” Juana Luna is joined by Federico Díaz and Pedro Rossi on guitar and Milagros Caliva on bandoneon. “What a sweet charm it has / Your memory, Merceditas / Aromatic little flower / My love once / This is how our love was born / With dreams, with a lot of faith / But I don't know why the flower withered and died / Loving her with crazy love / This is how I came to understand / What it is to love, what it is to suffer / Because I gave her my heart.”

On Putumayo's Latin American Women, Juana Luna offers a tender duet with Greek singer Eleni Arapoglou on “La Paloma” (The Dove), a 19th- century classic composed by Spanish songwriter Sebastián de Yradier. A song of longing, departure, and unrequited love, it is one of the most widely recorded melodies in history, resonating across Latin America, Europe, and beyond. Luna and Eleni’s intimate vocal arrangement brings new depth to lyrics like “If at your window you see a gentle dove / Treat it with care and welcome it there with love / Tell her of your love, love of my life / Adorn her with flowers as I would like to have done.”

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