Isabel Do Diego

Isabel Do Diego, the sound identity of the Andalusian artist Juan Diego Calzada, develops, in her musical work, an austere, brutalist and sacralised folklore. Isabel Do Diego’s electronic quejío opens a body to the fugue that traces a new perspective on Andalusian folklore. Her music is a folk prosthesis that transcends the spaces that flesh cannot inhabit. A hybrid being. Between the human, the animal and the spiritual.

Between rural familiarity and futuristic estrangement, Isabel Do Diego inhabits in her music screams and whispers, traditional melodies alongside broken sonorities, rural and industrial echoes, heretic messages and prayers, sexual fantasies and chaste emotions. And lots of beats, samplers and synthesizers.

In March 2020 he released Depueblo, his first album. This was included in the exhibition Romper el Aire by Pedro G Romero for the Alarcón Criado gallery in Seville. He visited several festivals such as Monkey Week (Seville), Flamenco viene del Sur (Seville) or Sâlmon (Barcelona). He has also been artist-in-residence in SONORIDAD.ES 2020-2021, curated by Daniel Valtueña for the KJCC centre in New York. In March 2022 she published Bestia Sagrada, her second musical work, with which she has performed at the Centro Conde Duque (Madrid), the Festival La Orgullosa (Barcelona) and Córdoba Ciudad de las Ideas.