{"id":10664,"date":"2026-05-02T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/leslie-grace-talks-new-album-amor-quien-eres-1236237548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:25:05","slug":"leslie-grace-talks-new-album-amor-quien-eres-1236237548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/leslie-grace-talks-new-album-amor-quien-eres-1236237548\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Grace Releases Her First Album in Over a Decade, \u2018Amor, Qui\u00e9n Eres?\u2019: \u2018It Was Almost an Initiation for\u00a0Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tIt took time, but Leslie Grace<\/a> has found her own sound and is back with her first original album in more than a decade, Amor, Qui\u00e9n Eres?<\/em>, a 14-track bilingual project that showcases her artistic and personal evolution.<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased today (May 1) under Sony Music Latin, the set \u2014 which includes singles like \u201cAyayay\u201d and \u201cInmerecido\u201d \u2014 blends her Latin pop foundation with bachata textures and R&B influences for tracks like \u201cEl Plan,\u201d \u201cMiedo\u201d and \u201cT\u00fa Supiste?,\u201d the latter featuring the duo Martox.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe release coincides with Grace\u2019s multiple acting projects. Alongside her music career, she has built a presence on screen since her 2021 debut as Nina Rosario on In the Heights<\/em> \u2014 the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a>\u2019s award-winning Broadway musical, directed by Jon M. Chu.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been a beautiful journey since then to go back to the basics on my music. Music is the foundation and came first, obviously, but when acting became a thing with In the Heights<\/em>, and I started to get into that craft a bit more, integrating that into my art, that part of my career became a new way for me to learn how I wanted my collaboration within music to feel,\u201d Grace tells Billboard Espa\u00f1ol<\/em>. \u201cIt was almost like an initiation for me in stepping up and maturing in the way that I was approaching my music because I started so young, so I never really had a chance to create \u2014 it was [mostly] versions of other songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGrace started in music as a child with a Christian album. In 2012, she rose to fame with a bilingual version of The Shirelles\u2019 classic \u201cWill You Love Me Tomorrow,\u201d titled \u201cWill U Still Love Me Tomorrow\u201d<\/a> and set to a bachata rhythm. The song reached No. 1 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Tropical Airplay chart and No. 3 on Hot Latin Songs. The following year, she released her self-titled album, produced by Sergio George<\/a>, which peaked at No. 3 on the Top Latin Albums chart and earned a Latin Grammy nomination for best tropical album. She was only 17 years old.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m super proud of and I\u2019m blessed that everyone enjoyed [that music] in their time. But in terms of the creative process of how I experienced creating as an artist, I never really took the time or had the chance to cultivate what that process felt like for me, what my preferred process was and learning that through being inspired by working with people like Lin and Jon and taking things from those film experiences to bring to my process,\u201d she reflects now, at 31.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince her successful 2013 LP, Grace has released an EP (Lloviendo Estrellas<\/em> in 2015) and a series of singles (most recently \u201cComo la Primera Vez\u201d with Boza in 2022), but she hadn\u2019t recorded a full album again until now. This time, supported by a diverse team of producers, she sought inspiration from her own experiences: \u201cA lot of good moments, not so fun moments, but mainly, mainly love \u2014 love experiences, relationships,\u201d she shares. \u201cAnd sometimes I would go back in my old journals and find little verses and things that I could expand on, and then they would turn into songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEvery song on Amor, Qui\u00e9n Eres?<\/em> includes a visual component, with individual music videos that, together, will form an \u201cimmersive short film,\u201d according to a press release, combining her talents as both a singer and actress. This past March, the artist had prominent roles in two films featured at the SXSW festival: Stages<\/em>, a Live Nation project directed by Ryan Booth that follows two mid-career musicians who must start over and tour independently; and Campe\u00f3n Gabacho<\/em> by Jon\u00e1s Cuar\u00f3n, about a young migrant crossing the Rio Grande in search of a better life in the United States.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked what she learned about herself during the process of creating her new album, Grace replies, \u201cI discovered that \u2014 a lot of times I thought that I didn\u2019t have clarity and really I just needed to exercise the muscle of expressing more of what I knew that I wanted to others and exercise the muscle of just feeling confident enough in my ideas to share and be able to collaborate with the people around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tListen to Amor, Qui\u00e9n Eres?<\/em> below. <\/p>\n

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