Juana Molina

Juana Molina is a master of experimental pop and one of the most original voices in contemporary music. Born in Argentina to tango singer Horacio Molina and actress Chunchuna Villafañe, she grew up surrounded by music and began playing guitar at five. After her family fled to Paris during Argentina’s dictatorship, she was exposed to global sounds that shaped her eclectic style.

Returning home, Molina became Argentina’s most popular comedian with her hit TV show Juana y sus hermanas. In 1996, she left television to pursue music full-time, debuting with Rara. Though initially met with skepticism, she refined her sound in Los Angeles, experimenting with loops and electronics for her breakthrough album Segundo.

Her following releases on Domino Records, including Tres Cosas, won international acclaim—The New York Timesnamed it one of 2004’s Top Ten Albums. Admired by artists like David Byrne and Will Oldham, Molina forged a genre-blending sound of folk, electronica, and ambient textures uniquely her own.

After joining Crammed Discs, she released Wed 21 (2013) and Halo (2017), both hailed as career highlights. Later works include the punkish EP ForFun (2019) and Segundo (21st Anniversary Edition) (2022).

In 2025, Juana Molina released DOGA, the eighth full-length of her career and her first album of new compositions in eight years – a record that took almost six years to brew. The album concentrates all the qualities that define Juana Molina’s music and goes a step further in the constant pursuit of the singular, where influences are hard to detect—genuinely original, literally unlike anything else. Unexpected melodies, ethereal, organic sounds, minimalist and subtle gestures, repetition as an aesthetic, austere, seemingly static harmony, lyrics as concentric layers: a familiar but always surprising landscape for the artist’s regular audience and an excellent doorway for newcomers to the world of Juana Molina.

Molina has toured widely across the US, Europe, and Japan, performing mesmerizing shows that blend live looping, effects, and acoustic guitar into an immersive audiovisual experience.

In the press:

“Like Brian Wilson or Kevin Shields, she pulls off the most out-there material with melodies nearly as accessible as conventional pop” (Rolling Stone, US).

“One of the most extraordinary singers around, veering on genius” (Sunday Times, UK),

“She is creating a slippery soundtrack for the subconscious” (Spin, US)

“Essential for all humans in planet Earth” (Wire, UK)

“Endlessly bewitching” (Mixmag, UK).

“Halo is her strongest LP. She wields a sonic palette refined by two decades of experimentation to create a narrative defined not by words, but by mood” (Pitchfork) 

“Dips deep into the unknown and brings back unexpected brilliance” (MOJO, UK)