{"id":2069962,"date":"2026-07-30T21:35:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2069962"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:35:26","slug":"julieta-venegas-turns-memory-into-nortena-at-lamc-it-made-sense-to-write-a-memoir-about-my-relationship-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2069962","title":{"rendered":"Julieta Venegas Turns Memory Into \u2018Norte\u00f1a\u2019 at LAMC: \u2018It Made Sense to Write a Memoir About My Relationship to Music\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tJulieta Venegas reflected on how memory, migration and creative instinct shaped her latest album and her new memoir, both titled Norte\u00f1a<\/em>, during LAMC on Thursday (July 30). In a Q&A with Rolling Stone <\/em>deputy music editor Julyssa L\u00f3pez, the Mexican singer-songwriter spoke about returning to Mexico, revisiting her Baja California roots and building the emotional world behind her recent work.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Tijuana-raised musician explained that the project began while she was living in Buenos Aires and missing both Mexico and her family. As she immersed herself in literature and history about Baja California \u2014 sparked in part by a photography and memoir project connected to her twin sister and grandfather \u2014 the ideas for both the album and book began to converge. \u201cIt made sense to write a memoir about my relationship to music, about my family,\u201d she said. \u201cI started building this little 3D world where I could just kind of sit and read and write and do these songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat process ultimately pulled her back home. \u201cIt actually brought me back to Mexico,\u201d Venegas said, framing the work as both a creative and personal reckoning. She described the album as a celebration of \u201cnorte\u00f1o-inspired music,\u201d though not a traditional norte\u00f1o record, but rather one filtered through memory, longing and place.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome of the session\u2019s highlights came as Venegas reflected on her early years \u2014 first learning piano almost by accident, then joining the Tijuana scene with Chantaje as a teenager and discovering songwriting before she fully saw herself as a singer. \u201cI started considering myself a songwriter before I considered myself a singer,\u201d she said, recalling the freedom and chaos of those early band experiences.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe also spoke candidly about authenticity, saying she found her voice less through strategy than through instinct. \u201cI knew what I didn\u2019t want,\u201d Venegas said. \u201cIt was all very intuitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLater in the conversation, the singer-songwriter touched on collaborating across generations, including her appearance on Tainy and Bad Bunny\u2019s \u201cLo Siento BB:\/\u201d \u2014 which reached No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 \u2014 while also speaking emotionally about songs rooted in the U.S.-Mexico border and family separation. Of one such song \u201cLa L\u00ednea\u201d with Yahritza y Su Esencia, she said she wanted to capture \u201cthe emotional point of view of what happens. It wasn\u2019t a statistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Wednesday (July 29), the night before her LAMC appearance, Venegas performed at New York City\u2019s SummerStage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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