Afro-Cuban star Daym Arocena has announced her new album ‘Alkemi’ which will be released on February 23 via Brownswood Recordings. It is her first album since ‘Sonocardiogram’ in 2019.

Dayme’s new single “American Boy” accompanies her album announcement. No other song on the album embodies Arocenas artistic liberation like American Boy – an exhilarating, futuristic slice of progressive pop. I wrote it ten years ago, but thought it was too much of a pop song, Dayme reflects. In an indirect way, the music industry had shown me that I wasnt welcome in that world. There isnt a Black woman like me who enjoys the kind of success usually reserved for Rosala or KAROL G. The image of music genres like salsa or bachata has been painfully distorted throughout the years. You are supposed to clone and fuse yourself in order to conceal your Black or indigenous side. They told me I didnt fit in that world, but Im going to prove them wrong