Dona Arca

Famously known as a Venezuelan musician, Dona Arca is also a singer, composer, record producer and DJ. She is currently based in Barcelona, Spain. Arca was born in Caracas, Venezuala. She first began releasing music when she was a teenager, however at the time she used a different stage name that was Nuuro. At the time, Arca had reached moderate popularity in her home country. With that success, she was able to collaborate with other Venezuelan artists for their music, like La Vida Boheme’s Grammy nominated album Nuestra, an album in which Arca worked on programming the synthesizers. Her debut extended play was released in 2012, titled Baron Libre. This EP was released through UNO NYC. She went on to release two other EPs that same year, titled Stretch 1, and Stretch 2. Her talent with programming expanded as she got to help produce, program and write five of the songs on Kanye West’s Yeezus album in 2013. Arca released her other mixtape titled &&&&& with SoundCloud and Hippos in Tanks. This project, unlike the previous once, included an audio-visual performance beside Jesse Kanda. Arca released her first studio album, Xen, in 2014 through Mute Records. She was able to collaborate with artists of different backgrounds, like Bjork’s eighth album Vulnicura. Arca released three other albums, Mutant in 2015, Arca in 2017, and Kick I in 2020. She also continued contributing production work to FKA twigs, Kelela and Frank Ocean.