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Pa'lante
For anyone learning to stand tall in two worlds at once 🇵🇷
Who it's for
Alynda Segarra, a Bronx-raised Puerto Rican songwriter, works through the pull between assimilation and heritage and lands on a call to keep going.
Split between worlds→Rooted and moving forward
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Pa'lante" is the eleventh track on The Navigator, the 2017 album by Hurray for the Riff Raff, which follows Navita, a character Alynda Segarra based on themself as a teenage street kid. Segarra grew up in the Bronx, and much of the album was inspired by a trip to their ancestral Puerto Rico.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: Suggested 13+
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass
