Paris (France) (AFP) - Daughters of a famous percussionist from Buena Vista Social Club, the Franco-Cuban sisters Ibeyi bring in their latest album their mestizo music with sensual touches and more Cuban airs, in a new, more personal and less political stage.

First modification: 11/02/2026 - 12:39

Four years after their last work, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz present "Offering", as an offering they make to themselves and their audience.

"It is a gift for us to be able to tell ourselves that we are lucky enough to do what we like, to try many things [...] to be free to make the music we want," says Naomi, along with her sister, in an interview with AFP in Paris.

"Offering" is also their first album produced entirely independently, outside the record company they worked with until now, XL, and in which they have collaborated with several producers.

"It's the end of an old book and the beginning of a new one," Naomi explains, emphasizing that the album shows them as they are, "one entity with two really very different people."

Their previous album, “Spell 31,” was more political, with songs addressing the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.

In "Offering", presented on a tour that begins on November 7 in France and will take them through Europe and North America, the Ibeyi twins talk more about themselves, with their hybrid pop, full of touches of soul, R&B and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.

"We have regained the freedom of the first album, but now we are much more focused on who we are," completes Lisa-Kaindé.

Polyglots

Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi, 31, are daughters of the famous Cuban percussionist Miguel "Angá" Díaz, figure of Buena Vista Social Club and other Cuban musical exile groups such as Orishas, ​​and of the French-Venezuelan singer Maya Dagnino.

His stage name, Ibeyi, means twin in Yoruba, the African language that slaves took with them to Cuba, where it is still used in Santeria.

They rose to fame more than a decade ago with the song "River", in whose video their faces appeared underwater.

The delicate and mystical melodies of "Offering" are sung in English, primarily, but also in Spanish, French and Yoruba, as the Ibeyi sisters have often done since the beginning of their career.

But this time Spanish is well present, as in the titles "Aset" or "The process."

"This came naturally," explains Lisa-Kaindé. Regarding languages, "we don't decide much, it comes as it comes."

These polyglots from birth use languages ​​as if it were a game.

"Spanish is much more poetic, what you can say is fabulous," Naomi emphasizes, adding that French is "either very corny or too formal" and English is "very direct."

Cuban identity

Although they admit that Yoruba is scarcer on this album than on their previous albums, this language of African origin is still very important to them.

"It's part of our musical brand and our identity," recalls Lisa-Kaindé.

Cuba, the homeland of his father and one of the pillars of his music, is also reflected in the entire visual part of the album and the videos published so far, filmed on the Caribbean island.

For the song "Offerings", in which Lisa-Kaindé, recently shaved by her sister, throws her hair into the sea as an offering, the wells of Miramar, on the coast of Havana, are seen.

"It is also a gift for our father," says Naomi, alluding to "Angá" Díaz, who died when they were 11 years old.

Recording in Cuba, with family and friends, was also a way to thank them and honor them, he says, because they are extraordinary, resilient people.

"It was important. The return home," insists Lisa-Kaindé.

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