Mobey Lola Irizarry

Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer cultural worker in the realms of Salsa, Bomba, And transdisciplinary performance. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages ​​of the drum and the braid. Lola is the creative director and conguere for Las Mariquitas, NYC's Queer and Trans Salsa band. They play in the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery and the Latin Rock group AVATAREDEN. They compose for Samora La Perdida's “Spanglish Sh!t” musical and are an alumni of EMERGENYC. Lola is quoted in Rolling Stone saying “I want to abolish patriarchy in Salsa… this is a duty to our lineage.”

Irizarry has performed with Such Artists and ensembles as Gladstone Deluxe, Samira Mendoza, George Emilio Sanchez, aani Kisslinger, Combo Chimbita, BombaYo, Chant Down, Carolina Oliveros, BuLLa En el barrio, Machiran, yaissa Jimenez, Justine Lee Hooper, and many others. They have performed and presented original work at Lincoln Center, Abrons Arts Center, the Shed, the Denver Art Museum, the “sovereign futures” conference, and many other venues across the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Cuba.