The all-female sextet Las Guaracheras was born in 2017 in the city of Cali, Colombia. It is an initiative of the percussionists Laura Linares and Mónica Castro, who as lovers of the son (“sound” in Spanish) and guaracha genres, formed an instrumental group in which they could express all their intense musical feelings while preserving the essence of guaracha and exalting the memory of the great Cuban guarachera Celia Cru. Above all, the cultural and artistic objective of the ensemble is to elevate the female voice in Afro-Latin music and thus build a more inclusive, diverse and respectful cultural space where we all fit. Through art, Las Guaracheras have found a way to resist, express, and in a way, “heal” different wounds; it is a privileged artform to make visible, through everyday language, the reality of women.