Ibeyi, the musical eclecticism of two talented twins

Santiago de Chile, February 6 (EFE).- Sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz look alike physically and in their way of dressing, but this Tuesday they demonstrated in a concert held in Chile that each of them is a separate universe. They are united, yes, by Afro-Cuban blood.

The Ibeyi twins, friends of Beyoncé and Prince, have made Chile fall in love with their music.

They form Ibeyi, a brilliant duo that has suffered what the Lebanese philosopher and broker Nassim Taleb conceives as the simple evolution of things, "uncertainty", since, as he explained in his book Antifragile, "certainty only exists for what inorganic - when it is static on a table - but for living beings the end of that process is the absence of life, death".

Born in France, the twins grew up surrounded by the love and talent of their father, Miguel Angá Díaz, percussionist for the legendary Cuban group Buenavista Social Club, and their mother, French-Venezuelan singer Maya Dagnino.

Angá died in 2006 and, when they were 18, death took her sister. As a result of the need to sing to those who have already left, to say goodbye to those who never completely leave with the best that they left them with, talent, Ibeyi (which in the Yoruba language means "twins") was presented to the world with an album namesake.

This Tuesday night, however, during their performance at the Nescafé de las Artes Theater in Santiago, they began their first performance in Chile with the first song from their new album,Ash, which represents a paradigm shift within his music, his approach to life.

Fate led them to start their still brief but successful career, singing to their sister inYanira and hiding behind the pain inWages, all of this demonstrating an unclassifiable musical capacity where jazz, soul, electronica and hip hop mix.

To then learn, inAsh, the same lesson that Taleb was trying to tell the world: that life does not depend on being "robust" in the face of misfortune, but rather "antifragile", to learn from every second of pain and become even stronger.

WithAsh, the duo demonstrates, as they indicated during the live show, that music serves to "release bad energies" and "celebrate", for which nothing more than two people are needed on a stage surrounded by instruments.

And they demonstrated it with songs like Vale, a lullaby that, as they explained, was composed thinking about their 5-year-old niece, orI wanna be like you, where Lisa sings to her sister that she wishes she "was more like her," which sparked laughter among the audience who enjoyed her performance.

Both also claimed the feminist struggle, for which they interpretedNo Man Is Big Enough for My Arms, where Michelle Obama's voice appears "sampled", offering a speech about the importance of women in society.

Between the keyboard, the microphones, the percussion and the digital mixing console, the twins drew an eternal journey in which they first recited "a cappella", then ran to their positions and returned again to the center of the stage to dance.

Another of the voices that accompanied them during the live performance was that of their mother, who recited some verses by the painter Frida Kahlo inTransmission.

Even one of those present, a baby who escaped from his mother's arms, couldn't help but go out to explore and get closer to the stage, where the Franco-Cuban singers were increasingly inciting the audience, making the entire theater stand up. finally to dance with them and say goodbye to the show on a spectacular and brilliant southern night.

To do this, they turned to one of their best-known hitsRivers, which caused the euphoria of the attendees, who accompanied the twins at the closing of their tour through Latin America, singing the melody of a song that sends a clear message: they are like a river, capable of being in constant movement, and only The future of things will be able to tell where that path leads.