Chiquis aligns chakras, stands up for immigrants in 'Flores En Mi Alma'

Chiquis, música Mexicana’s self-proclaimed “Abeja Reina,” is backmost with a caller medium released Thursday, “Flores En Mi Alma.”

The three-time Latin Grammy victor and eldest girl of música Mexicana royalty Jenni Rivera, Chiquis finds a communal crushed betwixt meditation and protest.

Through greeting affirmations, and a guided mediation way called “Soy Luz,” Chiquis seeks to soothe her listeners earlier getting existent astir the country’s ongoing migration crisis. On songs similar “Pa’ Mi Gente,” she tells the stories of migrant workers and expresses their value implicit the resounding guiros of cumbia folclórica.

Similarly connected “Somos,” she sings “No hay frontera que nos quedan grandes,” asserting that everyone belongs to Mother Earth.

Last January, De Los caught up with Chiquis pursuing her Diamantes circuit halt astatine the Wiltern. She explained that she was acceptable to power up her dependable and fig retired however música Mexicana tin lend itself to meditation.

“I request to instrumentality a measurement to the broadside to benignant of reconnect successful a antithetic mode with my music. I request a breather. I privation to get inspired again,” said Chiquis antecedently to the Times. “There’s a displacement coming.”

In the substance of a fewer months, she cracked the code.

Pivoting distant from her accustomed banda influences, “Flores En Mi Alma” alternatively channels elements of cumbia, reggae and R&B into the sounds of modern música Mexicana. The eight-track grounds besides incorporates respective debased frequencies — astir of which are excessively debased to beryllium heard — meant to prosecute listeners’ chakras.

Her erstwhile record, “Diamantes,” was each astir trusting herself and embracing her resilience. As idiosyncratic who has spent the bulk of her beingness successful the nationalist oculus — whether connected aboriginal 2000s world television, connected her podcast “Chiquis and Chill” — the medium reflects a caller level of consciousness and maturity.

“I’ve had a batch of unit successful my beingness from being the girl of Jenni Rivera and each the BS that has happened aft that,” said Chiquis earlier this year. “The thought of ‘Diamantes,’ and being a diamond made it each travel together.

“I’m a diamond and we each are,” she adds. “We are inactive present nary substance what we do.”