MJ Nebreda is partying with her demons
In this Spanglish interview, the Venezuelan-Peruvian musician and producer talks about non-binary identity, making emotional songs to throw it back to, and new release Corazón Club Vol.
1. WRITER, SET DESIGN AND STYLIST E.R. PULGAR PHOTOGRAPHER ROY FREIHA FASHION MANCHADO When MJ Nebreda arrives at my Mexico City apartment, I’m immediately struck by their cascading black hair.
With the cover of her last release Arepa Mixtape in my mind – where she’s laying on a bed of plantain leaves channelling an hallaca (a traditional Venezuelan Christmas dish) covered in avocados, flowers, and, yes, arepas – I would have imagined her with a flaming red mane à la Riot!-era Hayley Williams. “It’s a new era, and it’s giving goth bitch,” they say, bubbly and joking as we settle into photos.
The goth bitch of it all becomes evident as our rooftop shoot goes on under the greying late-afternoon sky, photographer using the last rays of sunlight as they glint faintly off Nebreda’s black-as-night Rick Owens Kriester visors.
