Juana Molina. Argentine singer, guitarist and producer from Buenos Aires, born in 1961 into an artistic family. Her father was the tango singer Horacio Molina, and she was exiled with the family to Paris in 1976. Her music's built live from loops: guitar, voice and analogue synth stacked into hypnotic, funny, faintly haunted folktronica. 'Cálculos y oráculos' is track 6 on Halo (2017). Before any of this she was Argentina's most popular television comedian, with the sketch show Juana y sus hermanas, and in 1994 she quit it at the absolute peak to go make records. She later said she'd pictured herself watching MTV as a decrepit old woman, thinking 'I could have done that.' David Byrne found her album Segundo and took her on tour in the States as his opening act. In November 2025 she put out DOGA, her first album of new compositions in eight years.
From the notes for EKHO Sonic Chill #7 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
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