Lisa Morales

Morales, now a veteran Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter with a storied performance history and a deep catalog spanning rock, country, folk, and Americana. And though a lot of her original music — both from the years she spent building an international following with Roberta as the acclaimed duo Sisters Morales and throughout the solo career she officially launched in 2011 — has been in English, Lisa has long maintained that “everything just comes from a deeper place when I’m singing in Spanish.” But it really wasn’t until her second solo album, 2018’s Luna Negra and the Daughter of the Sun, that the muse first moved her to explore the untapped wellspring of a third tongue she’d been fluent in her entire life, but had never consciously incorporated into her songwriting: Spanglish. Marrying different genres — Mexican and American, traditional and contemporary — had of course long been part of her wheelhouse, especially in Sisters Morales. But on Luna Negra, 2022’s She Ought to Be King, and now Sonora, her vibrant melange of musical flavors and different languages (even if not always within the same song) is artful enough to distinguish Morales’ embrace of “Spanglish” not just as part of the mix, but as practically a genre onto itself. "One of the most multifaceted artists to watch." — Rolling Stone "... an absolute enchantress on the stage... When she sings, the crowd feels each emotion. She breathes, we breathe." — Austin Woman Magazine