duendita Protects Her Energy in New Music Video for “big one”

The poetic siren returns with a new single, following her 2025 record ‘A Strong Desire to Survive.’

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No one skyrockets to fame alone. For neo-soul singer duendita, her community, the hands and voices who create with her, ignite her desire to enter the studio. And creation is precarious — it’s both fulfilling and emptying to release what was once immaterial. In her interview with Hypetrak Magazine for Nueva Generaciones — a music initiative celebrating global artistry, powered by Corona® Extra — she gave thanks to the countless visionaries who’ve helped shape her sound and likened her relationship to music as a mystical practice. Returning to the spotlight, duendita performs her newest single, “big one,” recorded in collaboration with Noah Becker.

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“big one” is supercharged in spirit. Its upbeat tempo feels light and airy, with duendita’s poetic cadence capturing the essence of uninhibited expression under the moonlight. “I surrender / I wanna see your soul,” she sings to a lover. Her 2025 album, a strong desire to survive, carries a similar tone and basks in the connections that enrich ordinary experiences. Through duendita’s lens, small pleasures are worth surviving life’s messiness.

A native of New York City’s South Richmond Hill neighborhood, the 30-year-old songstress proudly imbues her work with Queens-bred charm and sonic influences derived from her Nuyorican heritage. Her avant-garde approach to soul, jazz and R&B is transcendent yet deeply centered in the practice of self-care, and the small, intentional ways she chooses to protect her creative energy.

A poet, too, she elegantly weaves these themes in her songwriting, where she openly addresses her commitment to activism, healing and spirituality. “Getting whatever it is on my mind and on my heart onto the page or onto the track [matters the most to me],” duendita shares with Hypebeast Magazine. “The pen is sacred, and to honor it, I’m going to be open and vulnerable [by making] noise, being loud, and making mistakes.”

a strong desire to survive applies this mindset to wax, a studied musical dissertation on the art of gratitude — finding joy in the rhythms and melodies that remind us to regenerate and live, not just survive.

Check out the music video for “big one” in the galleries above. duendita’s feature interview on Hypetrak Magazine spotlights the artist’s evolution and the inspirations behind her latest album. Read more about the artists featured in Nueva Generaciones.

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