Chimbala attends Premios Juventud 2021 at Watsco Center on July 19, 2021 in Coral Gables, Florida.
Jason Koerner/GIDembow is having a moment, and hopping on the wave is pioneer Chimbala (real name: Leury José Tejeda Brito), who is recruiting colleagues for a forthcoming “bajo mundo” festival in New York, Billboard has learned.
Produced and presented by MTW Live, “Chimbala y El Movimiento” will gather renowned artists and newcomers in the flourishing dembow genre, including Bulova, Chucky 73, Dowba Montana, Juhn, Aventura’s Lenny & Max, Mozart La Para, Alex Sensation and Insuperable, with more performers to be announced in the coming weeks.
“Chimbala is an advocate of his colleagues and peers,” Diana Dotel, event organizer and founder of MTW Live, tells Billboard. “I wanted to always create shows in dembow but back in the days it was really underground. Chimbala loves and believes in this genre so much that I’m glad that we can do this and that it came together.”
The event is set to take place on March 26 at the staple United Palace in New York’s Washington Heights.
“I think it’s time,” Dotel elaborates. “This music has been around for a while and now it’s going mainstream. The only way the genre can evolve is by doing these types of shows and opening the doors so that these artists can begin touring. I think this event is going to help the expansion of the genre.”
But New York is only the beginning.
“We want to take it to several markets, and really push forward these guys that have been doing it for so long,” she adds. “There’s a reason so many artists are tapping into this rhythmic and provocative genre [Anuel, Rosalia, Myke Towers]. There’s definitely a lot of plans to keep growing.”
Tickets for Chimbala y El Movimiento are already on sale at ticketmaster.com.
Suki Waterhouse has spoken candidly about how she found herself crying constantly after the birth of her daughter.
The singer and actress reflected on her experience as a mother more than two years after she and her partner, actor Robert Pattinson, welcomed their baby girl in March 2024.
During an interview with The Standard published on Thursday, Suki explained that motherhood has completely shifted her outlook on life.
"I think it's made me marvel at our humanness. It's so funny, even just your kid getting a fever, watching a little body recover from that, it's brought me down to what it is to be alive and I really love that," she said. "It feels very survivalist and medieval in a way, especially birth, birth is medieval."
The Daisy Jones & The Six actress, 34, shared that she was caught off guard by just how exposed and emotional she felt after giving birth to her daughter.
"I'm almost two and a half years in now, but when she was first born, I remember thinking that I can't believe everybody does this and I can't believe how vulnerable I feel," she told the publication. "I was crying all the time."
Suki continued, "It makes me cry now thinking about it. It was just... shocking."
The Notting Hill singer also admitted that she has never considered herself someone who cries easily, making those emotions all the more surprising.
"It's so f**king weird! I'm not a cryer! I'm so not an emotional person, I'm such a Capricorn. But being a mum just fed me up in such a sweet way," she stated. "It just absolutely broke open my heart, and I'm just madly in love and, despite my crying right now, I enjoy it so much and I'm so taken by my daughter and so in love with doing it with my partner and I just feel the preciousness of it very much."
Suki and Twilight actor Robert, 40, have been in a relationship since 2018 and announced they were expecting their first child together toward the end of 2023.
The pair have largely kept their romance away from the spotlight and have yet to publicly share the name of their daughter.
