Paris (France) (AFP) – Less political, more poetic, the twin sisters of Ibeyi take an intimate turn in their new album "Offering" where pop is hybridized with the Cuban sounds inherited from their father, legendary percussionist of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Published on: 06/11/2026 - 10:24

“It’s a gift for our father,” Naomi Diaz told AFP alongside her sister Lisa-Kaindé, saluting the memory of Miguel “Anga” Diaz, who died when they were 11 years old.

Now aged 31, the two Franco-Cuban sisters also wanted to give "themselves" a gift by signing this fourth album, the first entirely self-produced, which they will defend on stage from Saturday in France before dates in Europe and North America.

“It’s the end of the old book and it’s the beginning of a new one,” Naomi continues, evoking the “gift of being able to be free, to make the music that we want.”

“We found the freedom of the first album,” adds Lisa-Kaindé. The two sisters were hatched in 2014 with the title “River” and its clip showing them freediving underwater.

To seal their emancipation, they went to film elements on their father's native soil, in Cuba, surrounded by friends and family members. “It was something important... A return home,” insists Lisa-Kaindé.

More sensual and more personal, "Offering" contrasts with their previous opus "Spell 31", certain titles of which, very anchored in reality, evoked the death of George Floyd in the United States or the Black Lives Matter movement.

The polyglot twins still navigate between several languages, English, French, Spanish, without forgetting Yoruba, the West African dialect that slaves imported to the Caribbean.

“It’s part of our musical style and our identity,” emphasizes Lisa-Kaindé. The very name of their duo “Ibeyi” also means “false twin” in Yoruba, a nod to their own twinning.

We form “one entity with two people who are really very different”, insists Naomi

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