BIO

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Catalina Mejía Rodríguez is a Colombian-German singer-songwriter and electronic engineer who weaves Latin American musical roots together with contemporary sounds. Her latest album, Amores y flores (Love and Flowers), explores migration, memory and celebration as a form of resistance, building musical bridges across places, cultures and generations.

Her music moves between the Andes and the Caribbean, blending rhythms such as cumbia, bambuco, guabina, Peruvian festejo and landó with elements of contemporary music. Through her original compositions, heartfelt interpretations and warm, engaging stage presence, Catalina turns every concert into an encounter with the stories, sounds and traditions that connect Latin America with the world.

Her artistic journey is shaped by a personal and collective exploration of identity, displacement, nature and belonging. In her songs, love and celebration are not ways of escaping hardship, but ways of moving through it. Music becomes living memory, an act of resistance and a chance to blossom far from home.

Beginning 2024, Catalina released Los colores de mi ancestro (The Colors of My Ancestors), an album deeply connected to her family roots and the musical legacy of her father, Colombian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist César Augusto Mejía Anicharico. The album brings together songs that honour the musical heritage passed down to her, celebrating the richness of Latin American traditions through a personal, contemporary perspective.

A key figure in shaping her sound is Emmanuel Briceño, a Colombian music producer, composer, arranger and musician who has received several Grammy Awards and contributed to internationally acclaimed productions. As the producer of most of Catalina’s songs, Briceño helps shape a sound that brings the richness of Latin American musical roots into dialogue with contemporary influences, while preserving each composition’s identity and expressive power.

Her musical journey has taken her to stages across Colombia and Germany, including the Mono Núñez Colombian Andean Music Festival in Ginebra, Colombia. Her work was also recognised through Mujeres de Café, a cultural publishing project in Colombia’s Coffee Region, and she received the Medalla al Mérito Mujer del Café, an award recognising her artistic and cultural contribution as one of the 100 most influential women in music in the Coffee Region of Colombia.

Catalina is now opening a new creative chapter with La Cura, her latest single in an acoustic version. The song explores the longing for healing, both on a personal and a collective level. At the same time, she is preparing to release a new song co-written with Radio Jaguar, an electronic music and sound-exploration project featuring musicians from Doctor Krápula, one of Colombia’s best-known alternative rock and Latin ska bands.

This collaboration brings together Radio Jaguar’s contemporary sound explorations and Catalina’s songwriting sensibility and Latin American roots, creating new possibilities for dialogue between tradition, experimentation and musical creation.

Drawing on her experience of life between Colombia and Germany, Catalina Mejía creates music that transcends geographical and stylistic boundaries: a living, diverse and ever-evolving expression of Latin American music that celebrates memory, builds community and embraces the power of blossoming on foreign soil.

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Catalina has also worked as a volunteer in Colombia in social development projects for young people and children, where she has led science and technology workshops in various initiatives such as Clubes de Ciencia Colombia.

Catalina received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with honors from the University of Quindío in Armenia, Colombia and her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Engineering from RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

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