Born in Pereira, Colombia, Lucrecia Dalt has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary music. Her trajectory from civil engineer to sound artist began while working at a geotechnical company in Medellín, where she discovered computer-based music production—a revelation that redirected her life and creative focus.
After early recordings with Colombian collective Series and a contribution to Monika Enterprise’s 4 Women No Cry (2008), Dalt’s sound evolved as she moved from Medellín to Barcelona and Berlin. Albums like Commotus (2012), Syzygy (2013), and Ou (2015) traced increasingly abstract territory.
With RVNG Intl., Dalt has released Anticlines (2018), No era sólida (2020), and ¡Ay! (2022), which was named one of the best albums of its year by Pitchfork, the New York Times, and NPR. Dalt has also scored HBO’s The Baby (2022), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024), and Rabbit Trap (2025). Dalt’s latest album, A Danger to Ourselves, turns inward and features vivid, personal soundscapes created with Alex Lázaro and collaborators including David Sylvian, Juana Molina, and Camille Mandoki.
Photo by Sammy Oortman Gerlings
Biography via Criterion.
