Perhaps unsurprisingly, Dominican-Mexican artist Ambar Lucid knew at a young age that she wanted to make music professionally someday, however, her upbringing made it seem like a “very unrealistic thing to want to be an artist.” Undeterred, she convinced herself that music was her destiny. Around the same time, she began uploading song covers to YouTube, but it wasn’t until she went through her first real breakup at the age of 15 that she realized she had her own unique stories to share. Ambar strummed the pain away on her guitar and recorded the song in a voice memo. In that moment, she officially became a singer-songwriter in her own right. Not long after, she began uploading her original songs to SoundCloud—folk-tinged, bilingual indie pop and R&B tracks tackling the hopelessness and sadness that teens often face in today’s complex world. Songs such as “A letter to my younger self” and “Frio” allowed Ambar to navigate her struggle with depression and the feeling that even her loved ones thought she was “crazy” for following her dreams. In her later teens, Ambar’s sonic palette began to expand past the shiny world of pop she’d been so obsessed with as a kid. Soon, she discovered psychedelic rock, a genre that “changed the game” for her. Coupled with what Ambar refers to as a “conscious spiritual journey,” this psychedelic discovery sparked a new evolution in Ambar’s sound and aesthetic, creating a whole new world for the dynamic artist: a rainbow-hued cosmic realm of flowers, mushrooms, faeries, and butterflies, all enveloped in a soundscape of soulful vocals, trippy psych-rock, and lush electronics [as heard on her transcendent Garden of Lucid album, released in 2020]. Her lead single “Fantasmas” from this album received praise by the highly acclaimed Netflix show Élite, where Ambar made her debut appearance as an actor with a mystical performance of the song as the center of the episode.

Ambar has amassed over 150 million streams across platforms, and her music and artistic expression have captivated artists like Omar Apollo, Mon Laferte, and Cuco, all who have given her a supporting role in their respective tours. Since, Ambar has accumulated her own following, enabling her to bring her Estrella alter ego to life and create an immersive performance of her kaleidoscopic world, selling out her own headline shows across North America. Ambar recently wrapped up the “Estrella Tour: Part 2” in the fall of 2023, selling nearly 10,000 tickets.

With more new music on the way, and her sophomore album due end of the year, Ambar is on a mission to touch as many souls as she can through her inimitable sonic storytelling. Above all, she just wants to manifest a little radical self-love and empowerment with her music: “I'm healing our generational trauma.”

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