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Latin music flows through the latest album by the Portland-based band Y La Bamba. Their latest album, 'Mujeres' — which means "woman" — is also a bilingual album where English songs also make up about half of the track listing. The band's frontwoman and singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza was born on the west coast but her Mexican parents raised her speaking Spanish.

Mendoza says this album is dedicated to her mother, someone she says is a powerful woman without really knowing it and adds.

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The title track of this album was inspired by a moment Mendoza experienced that she says represents machismo culture and toxic masculinity. Luz Elena Mendoza: I just now have been feeling more empowered and [have] been allowing myself to celebrate the clearness of my voice instead of feeling shame and scared and still just like, "Oh my god am I saying the right thing?

I don't know. And as a woman of color. And that's so loaded. That would take like days and days and days and many interviews to try to dismantle, but that's just the way it is and I'm not the only one with that story. Are you comfortable talking about the specific instance that inspired this song ["Mujeres]?