Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Carina La Dulce La Dulce. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Carina La Dulce, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Every new musical project I start is supposed to be meaningful in a sense of opening the doors to the authentic nature of musical cultures of the peoples of the world. The first time I faced important challenge in my creative work is when I released my first original album ELLA 12 Mystical Secrets of Woman’s Soul. The idea was to create the musical canvas in which I tell about the spiritual life path of every woman, expressed with Spanish flamenco, contemporary jazz and abstract collective images of the ancient goddess in a search of the eternal love. And from that moment I realized that blending the authentic music of the world with modern cultural language allows listeners to dive deeply into the wisdom of the previous generations, the amazing universes of our inspiration, and all of that can fill our everyday life with a kind of a precious mystery, at the same time letting us remain the persons we are at the moment inside our contemporary world. It was some time ago, and now I’m releasing the album Afromagia in which I dived deeply into the Afro-Cuban traditional religion called Santeria, also blending it with Venezuelan music, flamenco and electronic house music. Here i went even further blending such different things, but it is only at first sight. The meditative and powerful nature of the Santeria chants can be expressed perfectly with the state of primal trance, which electronic music always gives us. It’s a great responsibility to transmit the authencity of the culture I wasn’t born in. But I’m sure that when you feel a real love and immense passion to the things you create, to the projects you make, all is possible.

Carina La Dulce, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m a singer, composer and producer with a long experience in ethnic music. I create the music in my own style named Dream Ethno Soul and blend in my art the most amazing musical cultures such as Spanish Flamenco, Latin, African and Indian music mixed with the powerful energy of modern Electronic music. I was born in Russia, I have Jewish origin mixed with many others, performed in different parts of the world being the part of ethnic musical and theatrical projects and several years ago my adventurous nature took over me, and I started to create my own music. I released 4 albums in a range from classical Spanish to ethnic house and no one knows where will I go further in my passion for experiments. I really love to learn new things, and I’m pretty proud to pass the way from the beginner singer who doesn’t know how to take the mic to the professional singer with my own recognizable style and producer who creates music from scratch to the release, making arrangement, instrumentation, mixing and mastering by my own, and making production for other ethnic artists from around the world. The recent one is the song “Ndikupita”, the collaboration with Mashallo Samilo, the African singer and poet from Malawi – I made the production of his amazing song, in which the pearl of African culture shines with all its power and beauty. I think that we have ability to make any dream come true, if the strong message we want to express to the people lives inside our hearts.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

I’m pretty sure that no matter if we are building our audience in socials or in real life, the people feel if you are genuine or fake. I’m not talking about the big labels and companies which create the artificial projects working with artist such as with the mechanical performer inside the paradigm of the sponsored project which is planned mostly for the income. I’m talking about us, the indie musicians, who find themselves in the big and a bit scary ocean of the millions opportunities and tons of disappointments at the same time. The most important idea I learned about the audience is that the first thing is who you are, why you are create your music and which message, which energy you transmit. And the second thing is the tool you use for it – it can be everyday blogging around your musical activity, it can be mostly entertaining short videos, it can be long improvisational livestreams as I do and posting the prepared musical content twice a week, it can be endless submitting your audios and videos to all the possible platforms and playlists, we all have a lot of information about it all on the internet. But the point is to prioritize the things. For example, if you are concentrating on performing cover songs trying to obtain more audience, don’t expect that this audience will be very interested in your original music. If you are dropping funny reels one by one, don’t expect that the audience will look at your releases with serious message. The good music production takes a lot of time, and we also need to live the other parts of the life. So we don’t have much time to be distracted from the main thing we do – create and release music, and all the things we do in socials should help us to go this way, not to turn off from it. And this works not only for musicians, but for every creative person. Let’s make big and important projects!

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

The first and the simplest thing you can do to support any artist is to buy his art directly. For example, if you really love the music, and listen to it on the streaming platforms, you always can find the web page of the musician, or his personal store, and buy exclusive versions of the albums and some merch there. Keep in mind that musician can earn more than 8 dollars with streaming of his music only if he has millions of listeners. It doesn’t happen often with independent projects. And the sales on the personal stores, the ticket sales for the live shows are the best options for the artist. I think it works the same with visual artists and any other creative artists.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://carinaladulce.com/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/carinaladulce
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carinaladulcemusic/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/carinaladulce

Image Credits
Ekaterina Zherdeva Anita Sirevich